ADVERSITY
A daughter once complained to her father about the
harshness of life. No matter what she did, it seemed, some
new problem was always facing her.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen, placed three pans
of water on the stove and In each of the pans placed carrots,
eggs, and coffee beans. After letting them boil some 20
minutes, he took the eggs and carrots out of the pans and
ladled the coffee into a bowl
“What do you see, darling?", the father asked. “Carrots,
eggs, and coffee,” she replied, rather Impatiently. When he
asked her to look closer she noticed that the carrots were
soft, the eggs were new hard belied and the coffee tasted and
smelled good. She humbly asked, “What does it mean?”
He stated that each of them had faced the adversity of the
boiling water In a different manner. The carrot went In
strong and hard but came out softened and weak. The soft
egg which had needed Its hard shell for protection could now
stand alone. The coffee beans had not changed much, but
they had changed the water. “Daughter, which are you? In
the face of adversity, will you be a carrot, an egg or the
coffee?”
All those who live godly shall suffer persecution. (2 Tim
3:12) How do you face yours?
(Focus Magazine April 2002)