DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONAL: OCTOBER 29 LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE OUT OF IT (2) SCRIPTURE: PROVERBS 22: 29

Yesterday devotional opined that one can really make a good difference in any circumstance in life. What one becomes in life depends predominantly on how such responds negatively or positively to odds standing before him or her. As heard yesterday, making it in life does not mean one is born into affluence. We cannot blame our remaining at lowest ebbs of life because we were born into poor family. Mention was made yesterday to how Rashidi Yekini and Archbishop Benson Idahosa made it in life by personal determinations. The lead text above points out that those who excel in life are those who are diligent in their works. Today’s devotional will tell us how two persons diligently pushed themselves from grass into Graceland of life.

We are hearing of a Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg. This is an institution established by a young man call Andrew Carnegie born in 1835 into a very poor family in Scotland. His father worked in a Cotton Factory using his hands to loom cotton thread. Andrew, though had no money to go to school, taught himself how to read and write. He started work in the same Cotton Factory with his father as a bobbin boy at age 13 years. He worked as a Telegraph Messenger and at railroads where he got ideas of metal casting and molding. While working at these different places, he engaged self in reading books of great achievers. By 1889, Andrew Carnegie had had a construction Company named after him which was rated the largest in the world then. This company was later sold for $480 million and turned the proceeds to charitable works. He later established Carnegie Institute of Technology which is now Carnegie Mellon University.

The electric bulbs in use globally today were invented by someone who all around him was poverty and hardships. The devotional is talking about Michael Faraday, born in 22 September, 1791 in Newington Butts. Wikipedia remarked about him as one born into “not well enough” family. Meaning the family was very poor. He started his working experience as Bookbinder at 14 years, moved to bookseller for a master. Under bookselling, Michael Faraday applied his mind to reading many books. Amongst these books was one written by Isaac Watt, titled “The Imprisonment of the Mind.” Michael Faraday, through learning much about chemistry and electromagnetism ended up making electric bulb after over 500 times of unsuccessful attempts. The good news is, he carved out greatness for himself. Any one reading this devotional can change his or her life like Andrew Carnegie and Michael Faraday. To make it in life, we must be diligent with all we do. This will later make us stand before Queens and Kings.

PRAYER:

GRACIOUS FATHER, make me alive in my mind and diligent in reasonable works that will make me stand out in all circumstances in life. Grant me wisdom and passion to fight out my unwanted situations in life by the name of Jesus Christ.

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