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by Bob and Debby Gass
Give It All You’ve Got!
September 27, 2010
‘Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.’ Proverbs 13:4 NLT
By the time she was16, Romana BaÒuelos had been deserted by her husband and left to raise her two children alone. Living in Mexico, she was poverty-stricken, untrained in any profession and unable to speak English. But that didn’t stop her. She had a dream-one she refused to let go of. With only a few dollars in her pocket she headed for Los Angeles, where she used her last seven dollars to take a taxi to the home of a distant relative. Romana refused to live on the charity of others. Immediately she found a job washing dishes, followed by a second job making tortillas from midnight until 6 am. From her two jobs she was able to save $500, which she used to invest in her own tortilla machine. Over time, and with a great deal of hard work and study, she became the owner of Ramona’s Mexican Food Products, the largest Mexican food products business in the world. And that’s not all. She was hand-picked by President Richard Nixon to become the thirty-fourth United States Treasurer. Romana BaÒuelos exemplified what another President-Eisenhower-had to say about dreams and discipline propelling our future: ‘We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.’ Whether you flip burgers or trade futures, remember these words: ‘Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.’ (Proverbs 13:4 NLT) God will only add His blessing to your best effort, so today, give it all you’ve got!
SoulFood: 1 Sam 8-10, Luke 23:26-34, Ps 54, Pr 21:18-21
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2010
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