Daily Encounter: A Week-day Devotional by Richard (Dick) Innes of ACTS International. Wednesday, October 30, 2013 (Read user comments) Persistence Pays If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done. Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow—perhaps it all will.1 About Thomas Edisons many attempts in seeking to invent the electric light bulb Susan Hayward in Begin It Now wrote, Two dejected assistants of Thomas Edison said, Weve just completed our 700th experiment and we still dont have the answer. We have failed. No, my friends, you havent failed, replied Mr. Edison, its just that we know more about this subject than anyone else alive. And were closer to finding the answer because now we know 700 things not to do. Dont call it a mistake. Call it an education.2 Persistence paid off very well for Edison ... for us too because eventually he succeeded in perfecting the electric light bulb. Persistence in any worthwhile cause always pays rich dividends. And better still—persistence in Gods work pays eternal dividends. Suggested prayer: Dear God, please help me to be persistent in serving, obeying, trusting and loving you. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus name, amen.
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