There are treasures in those difficulties.

In ancient times, a king had a big rock placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the kingdom’s wealthiest merchants and chiefs came by and simply walked around it.

Many of them loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear but none did anything about getting the big stone out of the way. Then a poor farmer came along carrying a load of vegetables. On approaching the huge rock, the farmer laid down his load of vegetables and tried to move the stone to the side of the road.

After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. As the farmer picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the roadway where the huge rock had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the rock from the roadway.

The poor farmer learned what many others never understood. This is it that every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve one’s condition and that there are always treasures in difficulties.

Dear listener, you must wake up today and solve those problems.

We must never see problems as intruders into our lives but we must welcome them as friends and work with them.

Brace up today and do something about what you are going through. You can’t just sit down and expect things to change without you doing something for example, a man who had spent his life devoted to supporting his family was told he had only a few weeks to live.

He feared his family would soon be in trouble without his financial assistance. Then he prayed “Please God let me win the lottery to help my family”

Day after day, he prayed but nothing came out of it. Finally he was near death. “Why, God did you not help me? There was silence for a while. Then great voice from above replied “To win the lottery, you must first buy the ticket. May be that looks like you.

You’ve prayed and prayed for God to remove the obstacles and nothing has happened. Wait a minute, God wants to move the obstacle but he wants to do it with and through you. Do something about that problem. Take a step of faith today.

Write the application letter for that job. Send in the quotation for the business contract.

Give God something to work with.

It is a new day for you.