“No one here has shoes!”

Does the sheer difficulty of a task stimulate faith and expectancy of a great and holy God in you?

I heard this old story recounted by Dale Ralph Davis recently. An American shoe company sent a salesman to a foreign country. He had hardly arrived before he cabled for money to come home. His reason: ‘No one over here wears shoes.’ The company brought him back and sent another salesman over. Soon he cabled; “Send me all the shoes you can manufacture. The market is absolutely unlimited. No one here has shoes.”

The character of our God ought to make us an optimist in the shadow of seemingly overwhelming circumstances. Perhaps we should embrace the difficult task because we get to see more of God right?

This is a no-brainer right? How come I shy away from difficult tasks and embrace comfort so easily?

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