Do your best!

Dr. Ironside,  when a  boy, helped  his widowed mother by working during vacation, Saturdays, and out of  school for a  Scottish  shoe worker  who  was  a Christian.  He posted Bible  verses  all  over  the  shop so that everywhere one looks,  he would see the Word of God.  No package went out to a  customer without a tract or a word of testimony, and many came back for salvation.

Dr. Ironside’s Job was to pound leather for shoe soles.  A piece  of cowhide  was cut  to size,  soaked in water, and pounded  in  until  it  was  hard  and dry.  After endless poundings, he was weary.  One day, he noticed that another godless  cobbler  was  not  pounding,  but was nailing the soles while still  wet.  “So they come  back quicker,” was the reply.  The Christian owner explained to Ironside:  “I do  not cobble Just for $.50 or $,75 from customers.  I do it for  the glory of God.  In heaven  I expect  every shoe returned to me  in a pile, and  I do not want  the Lord to say,  “Dan,  that  was  a  poor  Job.  You did not do your best.”

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