Wednesday September 3, 2014.
'...If
God is for us, who can be against us?' Romans 8:31 NKJV
By God's Grace You Can Overcome
Some of the world's greatest people have faced the
world's greatest challenges, but have overcome them. Cripple a man with polio,
and you have Sir Walter Scott. Lock a man in prison, and you have John Bunyan.
Raise a man in abject poverty, and you have Abraham Lincoln. Subject a man to
bitter religious prejudice, and you have Benjamin Disraeli. Strike a man down
with paralysis, and you have Franklin Roosevelt. Have someone born black in a
society filled with racial discrimination, and you have Booker T. Washington,
Harriet Tubman, Marian Anderson and George Washington Carver. Make a man the
first child to survive in an impoverished Italian family of 18, and you have
Enrico Caruso. Have a man born to parents who survived a Nazi concentration
camp, paralyze him from the waist down when he's four years old, and you have
the incomparable violinist Itzhak Perlman. Call a man a slow learner and
mentally challenged, write him off as beyond education, and you have Albert
Einstein. Helen Keller was born blind and deaf, yet she graduated from college
with highest honors and impacted the world. Margaret Thatcher, England's first
and only woman Prime Minister, lived upstairs over her father's grocery store.
For a while her childhood home had no running water and no indoor plumbing.
Golda Meir, Israel's first and only woman Prime Minister, was a divorced
grandmother from Milwaukee. What do these people teach us? That success doesn't
depend on our circumstances, but on overcoming our circumstances. And with God
on our side we can do it! Paul, one of the world's great overcomers, wrote, 'If
God is for us, who can be against us?'
Taken
from the Word for You Today Devotional
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