“To the optimist, all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.” (William Arthur Ward)“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” (Art Linkletter)
To tell you the truth; I’m not everyday optimist but I have decided to be an optimist person. Mother said that every morning she can smell swine wastes, I replied thank God you have nose. Mother said you don’t have car, I replied I don’t need to buy petrol. Mother said we are poor, I replied we are happy. Mother said she always cook for us, I replied, “You are a great chief!” Then she continued, “Yes, you have me as your mother.” What an optimist mother!
A reporter asked Billy Graham if the evangelist was an optimist or a pessimist.
“Oh,” he said, “I’m an optimist!”
“How can you be an optimist,” asked the reporter, “when your sermons are so full of warnings about God’s judgment and the sins, immorality, and perversions of mankind?”
“I’m optimistic,” said Graham, “because I’ve read the end of the book. I’ve read the biblical prophecies of Christ’s return and Satan’s defeat.”
Have you read about young David defeated the giant Goliath? When Goliath went to the Israelite, the soldiers all thought, “He’s so big, we can never kill him.” But David looked at him and thought, “He’s so big, I can’t miss.”
Now go back to the reality; like I said I’m not entirely an optimist who believes that everything will be fine and the best will always happen. (Sir Harold Wilson said, “I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who carries a raincoat.”) Not in this part of the world! But optimist recognizes a responsibility in every crisis; the pessimist sees a crisis in every responsibility. To an optimist, an alarm clocks ring is an invitation to opportunity, adventure, and service.
How to you see your works now? Do you see your assignments as a great opportunity to Glorified God? Can you see that your conditions or whatever situations you’re in now as an opportunity for you to have more intimate relationship with God? I hope you’ll be more optimists day after day. Read your Bible for assurance… Jesus be with you.
THINK BIG.START SMALL.GO DEEP.
oooo i remember this quote!
ReplyDelete“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ;)