The Fruitful Revelation

 Many times, we do not succeed in solving problems because we fail to seek the answer from a different perspective.  We are so busy trying to answer the call before picking up the phone or in these times, pushing a button.  We fail because we do not get out of our own way.   We tend to approach the problems in our own unique way of thinking....come closer...I DOESN'T WORK!  The key to solving our biggest problems is not by using the same approach to thinking.  Be creative and come up three solutions...good, better and much better.  After you achieve this goal, then drop all three and come up with the best solution.

                                    Have your fruitful revelation!

A wise and tireless farmer lived on a farm in the Carolina mountains with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa, as he was called, was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading The Holy Bible. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa! I try to read The Holy Bible just like you but I don’t understand it, so what do I do? As soon as I close it, I forget what I just read..  What good does reading The Holy Bible do?” The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, “take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.” The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandfather laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little faster next time,” and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said, “I don’t want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You’re just not trying hard enough,” and he went out the door to watch the boy try again. At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would leak out before he got back to the house. The boy again dipped the basket into river as if he were baptizing it and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty. Out of breath, he said, “See Grandpa, it’s useless!” “So you think it is useless?” The old man said, “Look at the basket.”

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time after the renewing of his mind, he realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.

::: MORAL ::: 

“That’s What Happens When You Read The Holy Bible. You Might Not Understand Or Remember Everything, But When You Read It, You Will Be Changed, Inside and Out and freed from sin. That Is The Work Of The Almighty In Our Lives.”

Therefore you need not worry for anything!  Do what you are destined to do!

Doc Worley

inspired by Sohail