“I have the very greatest confidence in you, and I am so proud of you that in all our trouble I am filled with consolation and my joy is overflowing” (II Corinthians 7:4).
Author Arthur Gordon once attended a memorial service for a well-known business leader. He says …
In a subdued atmosphere of mourning, various friends paid tribute to him. Near the end, a young man arose. The other speakers had been assured and eloquent, but this one, under great emotional stress, could barely speak at all. A deep hush fell as he struggled for words. Finally, with tears streaming down his face, he told the gathering that when he was just an office boy, the industrialist had noticed him, helped him, encouraged him, paid for his education. “For a long time,” the young man said, “I was no good to him or anyone else. I just failed and kept on failing. But he never gave up on me –- and he never let…
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