Sat. June 13
"ANXIETY IN THE HEART OF MAN CAUSES DEPRESSION, BUT A GOOD WORD MAKES IT GLAD." (PROVERBS 12:25 NKJV)
Today, encourage somebody (2)
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Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were friends, they met at a convention sponsored by Edison's company where Ford worked as an engineer. Someone introduced Ford to Edison as "a young man who has made a gas car." Ford and Edison talked a while about the automobile, then Edison banged his fist on the table with excitement. "You have it! Your car is self-contained and carries its own power plant." Ford later recalled, "No man up to then had given me any encouragement, I had hoped that I was headed right. Sometimes I knew that I was, sometimes I only wondered, but here, out of a clear sky, the greatest inventive genius in the world had given me complete approval." Sir Isaac Newton is best known for his Theory of Gravitation and description of the Three Laws of Motion. But Newton might never have published his work had it not been for Edmond Halley. A well-respected scientist in his own right, Halley visited Newton at Cambridge to discuss a problem he was working on, only to discover that Newton had already solved it. Halley encouraged Newton to publish his work, and even offered to do it at his own expense. The result was the publication of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687, which had the groundwork for the study of mathematics and changed the way people see the world.
Who can you encourage to do great things? Who has God put into your life to cheer on, raise up, or assist on their journey? When you help others to do the things God created them to do, you share in their achievement.
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