Everyone needs
encouragement. Encouragement helps you reach goals that you thought were
impossible. Discouragement will cause you to operate at a lower level than your
optimum potential and it will limit your vision.
I read the
story of a man who was told by a teacher that he was not very smart. He needed
to quit school and learn a trade. He followed the advice of the teacher and
became an itinerant worker for 17 years. When he was in his 30s he took an IQ
test and discovered that he was a genius. He later became the chairman of the
Mensa Society, which requires an IQ of 140 for membership. For so many years of
his life, this man operated far beneath his potential. Why? Because someone
discouraged him. How different could this man’s life have been if he had
received encouragement.
Things are tough for many people right now. Give someone a word of
encouragement. Give that person a word of hope. Meet their need for
encouragement and watch that person achieve a great goal in their life.
