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‘If God is for us, who can be against us?’ Romans 8:31NKJV

If ever you think success comes to the people who have an easy ride in life, then think again. Some of the most famous people in history faced tremendous challenges, but overcame them. Novelist Sir Walter Scott was physically disabled. John Bunyan began The Pilgrim’s Progress while imprisoned for his faith. Abraham Lincoln was raised in abject poverty. Statesman Benjamin Disraeli was harassed by harsh and bitter prejudice. Franklin Roosevelt was struck down with paralysis. Educator Booker T. Washington, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, singer Marian Anderson and agricultural inventor George Washington Carver were subjected to continual racial discrimination. Opera singer Enrico Caruso was the first child to survive in a poor Italian family of eighteen. The incomparable violinist, Itzhak Perlman, was born to parents who survived the terrors of a Nazi concentration camp, and was paralysed from the waist down at age four. Albert Einstein was called a slow learner, and written off as unable to be educated.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf, yet she graduated college with the highest honours and impacted the world. Margaret Thatcher, the UK’s first woman Prime Minister, lived upstairs over her father’s grocery shop. For a while her childhood home had no running water and no indoor plumbing. Golda Meier, 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?’

SoulFood: Lev 24:17–22, Deut 15:7–11, Matt 5:38–48

word4today an adaptation of The Word For Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright 2024

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