DAY 150 Read Proverbs 23 through 26.
Today's reading: Good advice couched in pithy sayings continues to point out the good life. Over and over the young person is urged to heed the counsel.
Memory gem: "My son, give me thine heart ,and let thine eyes observe my ways" (Proverbs 23:26).
Thought for today:
One of America's great preachers grew up as a little boy in Atlantic City. He loved music, and one day he read in the newspaper that the great Italian violinist Giovanni Viotti was coming to give a concert and would play on a $5,000 violin.
This little boy, the twelve or fifteen years of age, saved his nickels. He ran errands, sold newspapers, begged money from his father and mother, until finally he had five dollars saved up. That is what it cost to hear Viotti play.
When the great night came, his mother helped him get all fixed up in his best clothes to go to the concert. The lad sat spellbound as the great violinist came out, put his violin to his chin, and began to play. Wonderful! Every note seemed to melt into every other, and the audience sat enthralled.
Then after a while something seemed to go wrong. Viotti appeared to be in a nervous state, and jerked the strings of his violin. Finally he became violent and angry at the violin; he threw it down and smashed it into splinters. The audience gasped in amazement--a $5,000 violin ruined because of a man's passion!
Finally the artist said: "Sit down, folks; sit down! That was not a $5,000 violin. I found it right here in your town and bought it for $1.69. You came here to see a $5,000 violin. But I wanted you to come here to hear a man play. I played on a violin that cost less than two dollars, and you sat entranced with my music. I just wanted to show you that it is not the violin; it's the man. Now I will play on the $5,000 violin."
My friends, it may seem to you that your violin, your talent, your life, doesn't amount to much. It may seem to you that you have ruined everything. Listen! If you will put the violin of your life fully into the hands of the heavenly Artist, He will bring from it the very music of the angels, the harmonies of heaven. Give your heart to Him today. And may the great God take you and mold you and refine you and use you!
Today's reading: Good advice couched in pithy sayings continues to point out the good life. Over and over the young person is urged to heed the counsel.
Memory gem: "My son, give me thine heart ,and let thine eyes observe my ways" (Proverbs 23:26).
Thought for today:
One of America's great preachers grew up as a little boy in Atlantic City. He loved music, and one day he read in the newspaper that the great Italian violinist Giovanni Viotti was coming to give a concert and would play on a $5,000 violin.
This little boy, the twelve or fifteen years of age, saved his nickels. He ran errands, sold newspapers, begged money from his father and mother, until finally he had five dollars saved up. That is what it cost to hear Viotti play.
When the great night came, his mother helped him get all fixed up in his best clothes to go to the concert. The lad sat spellbound as the great violinist came out, put his violin to his chin, and began to play. Wonderful! Every note seemed to melt into every other, and the audience sat enthralled.
Then after a while something seemed to go wrong. Viotti appeared to be in a nervous state, and jerked the strings of his violin. Finally he became violent and angry at the violin; he threw it down and smashed it into splinters. The audience gasped in amazement--a $5,000 violin ruined because of a man's passion!
Finally the artist said: "Sit down, folks; sit down! That was not a $5,000 violin. I found it right here in your town and bought it for $1.69. You came here to see a $5,000 violin. But I wanted you to come here to hear a man play. I played on a violin that cost less than two dollars, and you sat entranced with my music. I just wanted to show you that it is not the violin; it's the man. Now I will play on the $5,000 violin."
My friends, it may seem to you that your violin, your talent, your life, doesn't amount to much. It may seem to you that you have ruined everything. Listen! If you will put the violin of your life fully into the hands of the heavenly Artist, He will bring from it the very music of the angels, the harmonies of heaven. Give your heart to Him today. And may the great God take you and mold you and refine you and use you!
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