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Topic: Inspirational 09/06/10 Pecking Away
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Date: Sep 01 05:50PM -0400
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Pecking Away
From Steve Goodier's book "Riches of the Heart"
Do you know when to give up and when to keep trying? Former University of
Alabama president, Frank Rose, used to tell a favorite story about a time,
in the mid-1960s, when evangelist Billy Graham was invited to speak at an
event in the university's football stadium. There were 18,000 people in
attendance that evening. America's civil rights movement was well underway
and the stadium crowd represented one of the largest racially integrated
meetings ever held in the state.
As Rev. Graham was giving a message about easing racial tensions, a huge
thunderstorm gathered overhead. Suddenly, lightening struck and a ball of
fire seemed to emanate from the speaker's microphone and travel down the
wire.
Graham immediately sat down. Then he leaned over and spoke to Alabama's
legendary football coach, Bear Bryant. "Coach," he said, "you'd have
stopped, too, if that lightnin' had hit you like that."
Bear said, "No sir!"
"What do you mean?" asked Graham.
"Well," he said, "if I was down on the one-yard line, I wouldn't have
stopped until I scored."
At that, Rev. Graham returned to the microphone and finished his talk.
Safety considerations aside, the story reminds us of one of life's important
lessons. In most of what we do, there is a time to stop, but there is also a
time to score; a time to pack it in, but also a time to complete the task.
The woodpecker owes its success to the fact that it uses its head and keeps
pecking away until it finishes the job!
Today, will you quit? Or will you keep pecking away?
"Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the
first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy
candlestick out of his place, except thou repent." - Revelation 2:5
"Onthou dan waarvandaan jy uitgeval het, en bekeer jou en doen die eerste
werke. Anders kom Ek gou na jou toe en sal jou kandelaar van sy plek
verwyder as jy jou nie bekeer nie." - Revelation 2:5
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