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*/Daily Renewal/* NV 5~/20~/01 AM 2 Corinthians 4:7-18
*OS:* Reading & Prayer *(A, B & C)*
*D* There is an old story about a fellow who lived alone and went to a pet store to buy a parrot.
He thought the bird might fill some of his lonely hours.
The very next day, however, he came back to complain, "That bird doesn't talk."
The store owner asked if he had a mirror in its cage, and the man said he didn't.
"Oh, parrots love mirrors," he explained.
"When he sees his reflection in the mirror, he'll just start talking away."
So he sold him a birdcage mirror.
The bird owner was back the next day to gripe that his parrot still hadn't said a word.
"That's very peculiar," allowed the pet expert.
"How about a swing?
Birds really love these little swings, and a happy parrot is a talkative parrot."
So the man bought a swing, took it home, and installed it in the cage.
But he was back the next day with the same story.
"Does he have a ladder to climb?" the salesman asked.
"That just has to be the problem.
Once he has a ladder, he'll probably talk your ear off!"
So the fellow bought a ladder.
The man was back at the pet store when it opened the next day.
From the look on his face, the owner knew something was wrong.
"Didn't your parrot like the ladder?" he asked.
His repeat customer looked up and said, "The parrot died."
"I'm so sorry," the stunned businessman said.
"Did he ever say anything?"
"Well, yes.
He finally talked just before he died.
In a weak little voice, he asked me, ‘Don't they sell any bird seed at that pet store?'"
Take a look at Paul’s outlook on life:
*I.
**E He saw beyond the struggles and hardships of life.
(**~*4:8-9)*
A. *G* Paul had his struggles (2 Corinthians 11 /4 //Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, 26 I have been constantly on the move.
I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers.
27 I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.
28 Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches./)
/B. /A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her.
She did not how she was going to make it and wanted to give up.
She was tired of fighting and struggling.
It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen.
He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire.
Soon the pots came to a boil.
In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the last he placed ground coffee beans.
He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing.
In about twenty minutes he and turned off the burners.
He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl.
He pulled the eggs out and placed them a bowl.
Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her he asked.
"Darling, what do you see." "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots.
She did and noted that they were soft.
He then asked her to take an egg and break it.
After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee.
She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
She humbly asked.
"What does it mean Father?"
He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting.
But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile.
Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior.
But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however.
After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you," he asked his daughter.
"When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond?
Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?
"
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**G He saw beneath the flesh of people.
(**~*4:15)*
A. *~**5:16-17
1. Paul had an un-earthly attitude toward people.
B. If we could fix the way we look at others that would have a profound effect on our lives!
1. The last time you were made or upset had something to do with somebody right?
2. Life is dealing with people.
C. For anyone who didn't see David Letterman's take on this: And it's a true story... On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine.
She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room.
But first she wanted to stash the quarters in her room.
"I'll be right back and we'll go to eat," she told her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the elevator.
As she was about to walk into the elevator she noticed two men already aboard.
Both were black.
One \\ of them was tall...very tall...an intimidating figure.
The woman froze.
Her first thought was: These two are going to rob me.
Her next thought was: Don't be a bigot, they look like perfectly nice gentlemen.
But racial stereotypes are powerful, and fear immobilized her.
She stood and stared at the two men.
She felt anxious, flustered and ashamed.
She hoped they didn't read her mind but Gosh, they had to know what she was thinking!!! Her hesitation about joining them in the elevator was all too obvious now.
Her face was flushed.
She couldn't just stand there, so with a mighty effort of will she picked up one foot and stepped forward and followed with the other foot and was on the elevator.
\\ Avoiding eye contact, she turned around stiffly and faced the elevator doors as they closed.
A second passed, and the another second, and then another.
Her fear increased!
The elevator didn't move.
Panic consumed her.
My God, she thought, I'm trapped and about to be robbed!
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