Wisdom Nugget: "All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty"
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The story is told of a man by the name of Mr Kingsley who had a son named Brian, who was a handsome young man. There was no one more handsome than Brian in Israel. He stood a head taller than any other man in Israe. One day Kingsley's cars got lost. So he said to his son Brian, "Take one of the staff and go look for the cars." Brian went to look for the cars. He walked through the hills of Ephraim and through the area around Shalisha. But Brian and the servant could not find Kingsley's cars. So they went to the area around Shaalim, but the cars were not there either. Then Brian traveled through the land of Benjamin, but he and the servant still could not find the cars. Finally, Brian and the servant came to the town named Zuph. Saul said to his servant, "Let's go back. My father will stop worrying about the cars and start worrying about us." But the servant answered, "A man of God is in this town. People respect him. Everything he says comes true, so let's go into town. Maybe the man of God will tell us where we should go next." The day before, the Lord had told Bishop McCain , "At this time tomorrow I will send a man to you. He will be from the tribe of Benjamin. You must anoint him and make him the new leader over my people Israel. This man will save my people from the Philistines. I have seen my people suffering, and I have heard their cries for help." When McCain saw Brian, the Lord said to McCain , "This is the man I told you about. He will rule my people." Brian went up to a man near the gate to ask directions. This man just happened to be McCain. Brian said, "Excuse me. Could you tell me where the seer's house is?" McCain answered, "I am the seer. Go on up ahead of me to the place for worship. You and your servant will eat with me today. I will let you go home tomorrow morning. I will answer all your questions. And don't worry about the cars that you lost three days ago. They have been found.
Now, there is something that everyone in Israel is looking for and that something is you and your family." Imagine that Mr Kingsley is Kish, Brian is Saul, McCain is Prophet Samuel and the missing cars are donkeys. It's amazing how a simple obedience to a father's instruction ended up in the enthronement of Saul as king over Israel. He went out in search of his father's donkeys at a time when Israel was in search of a king and its amazing how he ended being found. If he did not go out in search of those donkeys he would never have been found. More so he could have given up the search at the hills of Ephraim or at Shalisha or at Shaalim or at the land of Benjamin but they persisted until they got to Zuph.
They remained determined to bring result back to their boss. And at Zuph they decided to see the Priest only to discover that this whole delay, long wait and seeming fruitless journey through five cities searching for donkeys was all a set up to bless Saul. In Samuel's words: "Now, there is something that everyone in Israel is looking for and that something is you and your family." Because he was faithful in what was another man's, He eventually got his own.
Mario Andretti wrote: "Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek".
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