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Shake It Off and Step Up!  You Can Overcome Problems!

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Good News For Youth (GNFY) published under the oversight of the Alkire Rd Church of Christ elders and posted by permission of the editor.

 

This parable is told of a farmer who owned an old mule...

 

Shake off your problems!  You can overcome them!The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule 'praying' -or- whatever mules do when they fall into wells (braying?).

 

After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.

 

Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened... and enlisted them to help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery. Initially, the old mule was hysterical! But as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back... a thought struck him. It suddenly dawned on him that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back... he should shake it off and step up!

 

This he did, blow after blow. "Shake it off and step up... shake it off and step up... shake it off and step up!" He repeated to encourage himself. No matter how painful the blows, or how distressing the situation seemed the old mule fought "panic" and just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up!

 

It wasn't long before the old mule, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly over the wall of that well! What seemed like it would bury him, actually helped him all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.

 

That's life! 

If we face our problems and respond to them positively, and refuse to give in to panic, bitterness, or self-pity the adversities that come along to bury us usually have within them the very real potential to benefit us!

 

Someone has said, "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. And professionals built the Titanic."

 

"......if God be for us, who can be against us?"

(Romans 8:31)

 

"Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them:

because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."

(I John 4:4)

 

We may not think that we can overcome the problem before us. Let us remember, we CAN overcome any problem or anything that comes our way, if God is on our side (and we are on His!).

 

-- Author Unknown, May 2000 --

 


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