From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
Albert Einstein once said, “A calm and humble life will bring more happiness than the pursuit of success and the constant restlessness that comes with it.”
He also said, “When there’s a will, there’s a way.”
The great physicist learned in 1922 on a trip from Europe to Japan that he had won the Nobel Prize in physics.
While in his hotel room in Japan he received a delivery from a messenger but realized that he had nothing with which to tip the young man.
Instead, he wrote down on a pair of notes the two quotes I just mentioned.
A few years ago these two quotes sold at an auction for $1.6-million and $240,000, respectively.
Good, sound advice will take you further than great riches, if applied wisely.
Proverbs 25:11 says, “A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.”
Do you pay heed to the wise teachers and mentors in your life?
My late father-in-law was a man who didn’t have an abundance of material wealth, but his advice as a pastor has helped me innumerably over my 35 years of ministry.
The Bible is God’s Word, God’s advice for our lives.
You can’t put a price on how valuable the teachings of Scripture are to us.
David understood this, and said as much, in Psalm 19:9-11: “The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.”
Einstein’s advice was fantastic, and God’s is even better, but neither will benefit you if you don’t apply it.
