Success consists in the overcoming of difficulties. All men and women who have made a success of any kind have done so by overcoming difficulties. There was a time when laying a telegraph line from New York to Boston presented many difficulties. Then there was a time when doing that was easy, but laying the Atlantic cable presented difficulties. Later on, marine cable laying became a routine business, but radio across the ocean presented problems that for a time were insuperable.
If you have a personal disability that seems to keep you from success, do not accept it as such, but capitalize on it and use it as the instrument for your success. H. G. Wells had to give up a dull underpaid job because of ill health, so he stayed at home and wrote successful books and became a world-known author instead. Edison was stone deaf and decided that this would enable him to concentrate better on his inventions. Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, very shortsighted and nervous. However, he worked hard to develop his body and became, as we know, a strong husky open-air man and big game hunter.
The owner of a fashionable dress business in London was the wife of a struggling clerk, who was stricken with tuberculosis. She had never been in business, and had no training, and found herself having to support a husband and two children. She started with nothing but good taste in clothes and a belief in prayer.
… To him that overcometh with I give to eat of the tree of life (Revelation 2:7).
We all face difficulties in our lives. It is the reality of physical existence. Yet, this too is part of God’s plan for us. It is how we deal with these rough times that define us and our problems. You see, without the tension and stress that comes with material existence, we would never grow or develop into the spiritual beings God created us the become.
When we see God in the midst of the difficulty, we then can see the blessings therein. Then, we can seek those blessings by following God’s will in how we respond to the trouble. We overcome the problem by using them to draw closer to God and God’s will for us.
Ask not “why me, Lord?”, but say “your will be done, Lord”. Then do it.
Capitalizing,
Z Gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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