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by Bob and Debby Gass
The power of encouragement (2)
November 3, 2009
‘Pleasant words are...health to the bones.’ Proverbs 16:24 NKJV
Goethe said, ‘Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.’ One day a principal called in three teachers and said, ‘You three are the finest in the system, so we’re giving you ninety high-IQ students to see what you can do with them.’ Those students achieved thirty percent more than the other students in the school. At the end of the year the principal called the three teachers in and said, ‘I’ve a confession to make. You didn’t have ninety of the most promising students; they were run-of-the-mill. We picked them at random and gave them to you.’ The teachers naturally concluded that their exceptional teaching skills must have been responsible for the students’ great progress. ‘I’ve another confession,’ said the principal. ‘You’re not the brightest teachers; your names were the first three drawn out of the hat.’ So, why did those students and teachers perform at such a level? Because they were encouraged to believe they could! Baseball star Reggie Jackson said, ‘I’ll tell you what makes a great manager; a great manager has a knack for making ball-players think they are better than they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you’ll never settle for playing anything less than your very best.’ Today, go out and encourage somebody!
SoulFood: Ezra 6-8, John 8:1-20, Ps 96, Pr 25:1-7
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2009
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