Some people don't understand what business they are in. For
example, the stagecoach operators of the 1800s thought they were in the
stagecoach business. Likewise, railroad owners didn't realize they were in the
transportation business; they thought they were in the railroad business. Had
they realized they were in the transportation business, they would have
invested in the airplane.
The telegraph people thought they were in the telegraph
business. Around 1886, they could have bought all the telephone patents for
$40,000. Obviously, these people didn't know they were in the communications
business.
George Morrow, a computer guru, responded to an article in the
Harvard Business Review called 'Market Myopia,' “I used to think these guys
were really dumb because they didn't know what business they were in. Then I
asked myself, 'What business am I in?'” He didn't have an answer. Do you? —George K Morrow, InfoWorld, Q&A section.
The migration of the monarch
butterfly is not uncommon to witness in late summer. Scientists have recently
found 16 sites in central Mexico, as small as one acre, where millions upon
millions of butterflies from North America spend the winter. No one knows how
butterflies find their way to these tiny plots of land. Each new generation that
migrates has never been there before. Something programmed into their tiny
bodies directs them to a place they have never seen, but which they somehow
know they must find.
—http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/monarch-migration.html,
accessed July 17, 2013.
These butterflies are one more example of God's creatures
being drawn along by the mind of their Creator. Somehow, they know exactly
where they are to go. They illustrate the examples of faith found in Hebrews
11, the kind of faith we see in Joseph. He remained focused and deliberate.
He knew exactly where God designed for him to go with his life. He remained true
to his calling.
[God] gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill
of Pharaoh king of Egypt; so he made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.
(Acts 7:10 NIV)
No comments:
Post a Comment