OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

JOYPEACE

The greatest of all temptations is to be convinced that we are helpless because of circumstances. The strong person is not like a cork tossed about upon a sea of cross currents, but rides the waves of difficulty by means of God-given strength. Epaminondas, a celebrated Greek general, was famous as a sanitary engineer in cleaning up the city of ancient Athens. He became greater than his environment when he was appointed by his political enemies as scavenger of the city. “If the job cannot magnify me, I will magnify the job,” he said, and proceeded to turn a seemingly humiliating job into a glorious opportunity. This suggests changing the things that need changing and molding adverse conditions to a nobler end.