WHATEVER HAPPENS, FINISH STRONG.
Psalm 105:19 Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is what happens within us and who we become at the end of the day.
Once upon a time a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter, moaned and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl.
He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied.
“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.”
He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
However, each one reacted differently.
The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they were exposed to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
Which are you,” he asked his daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? “
Many of us enter adversity feeble and with nothing to hope for and yet we come out strong, others enter hard and very promising and end up soft and humbled and for others a complete change of story.
Whatever happens to you this year may adversity and trial have a positive impact on your story when all is said and done. Just like the scripture which was in reference to Joseph who spent years in prison but became strong and finished strong.
Let me say again. In life, things happen around us, things happen to us, but the only thing that truly matters is what happens within us and who we become at the end of the day. The difference between a successful person and a failure is how they react in terms of problems.
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