Life Is What You Make It!

— A blacksmith makes five dollars worth of iron into horseshoes and gets ten dollars for them. — A cutler makes the same iron into knives and gets two hundred dollars. — A machinist makes the same iron into sixty-eight hundred dollars’ worth of needles. — A watchmaker makes it into two hundred thousand dollar’s worth of mainsprings; or into hair-springs and gets two million dollars, sixty times the value of the same weight of gold! So it is with life and the opportunity given each of us when we are born. One person takes her time and talents and combines them to advance her earthly interests alone. Another takes the same opportunity, and through wisdom and the counsel of God’s Word, shapes and molds his life for time and eternity. Wise people refine their character so that they are worth something to the world and useful to God. The…