Week 36 Day 2

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What Other People Say (Doesn’t Always Matter)

They serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

Revelation 7:15

And swift to do his high behest

Each spirit wings its flight;

And virtue glows on every breast,

A gem of purest light.

Abraham Lincoln was one of those people nobody expected to succeed. He was underrated. His appearance wasn’t impressive. He was clumsy, awkward, and easy to poke fun at. “Nobody ever expected me to be president,” he quipped shortly after being elected to the nation’s highest office. But Lincoln learned what many people never do. It doesn’t matter much what other people say or think. What matters is what you think about yourself, about your own diligence and will to succeed. Lincoln paid little attention to the views of others. He was self-taught and self-initiated. He learned to lean only on God, whom he could always trust, and to press on. And he learned to press on knowing that God would have his way.