Many years ago, in a small town in the United States, a
doctor climbed his horse and rode to a Chemist’s
shop. He went in through the back door, with him he carried in his hand an old
fashioned kettle and a wooden paddle.
He brought these items to the shop clerk with a sheet of paper on which was written the formula for a drink. Both of them began to bargain and eventually the clerk gave the doctor five hundred dollars for the items that he had come to sell. What the doctor sold to the clerk was worth a fortune to the young clerk but not to the doctor who gave away the items for just five hundred dollars.
To the surprise of the clerk, the content of the kettle which has since become
a household name in the world, began to pour forth gold. Somehow, the young
clerk added something to the kettle, the paddle and the formula. That thing, I
believe, is an idea. Today, the content of that kettle is the greatest consumer
of sugar in the world. It is sustaining sugar plantations, the workers and
their families around the world. He brought these items to the shop clerk with a sheet of paper on which was written the formula for a drink. Both of them began to bargain and eventually the clerk gave the doctor five hundred dollars for the items that he had come to sell. What the doctor sold to the clerk was worth a fortune to the young clerk but not to the doctor who gave away the items for just five hundred dollars.
The name of this drink is Coca-Cola, and the
name of the clerk is Asa Candler. The same thing that the doctor placed a value of five hundred dollars on has
today assumed a value of $192.8
Billion as at May this year (2016). The difference between
the doctor and the clerk was one idea. The doctor did not realize that, all the
while he was holding the kettle, the paddle and the formula, billions of dollars were potentially lying in his hands.
Unfortunately he did not find the idea so he could not get the billions of
dollars. But one young man caught the idea and was able to release the
potential for the billions.
I share this story with you to make you understand one of the basic principles of life. Before creation, this whole
world and the people in it were just an impression on God's mind. Everything
was sleeping quietly in an idea. When you understand, that simple foundation,
you lay hold on a principle that can see you through to the fulfillment of your destiny.
A great future awaits all of us, but I want
to tell you that this future is waiting for you in the thoughts that God wants
to transfer into your mind. Some of, us have caught some ideas, some have not,
but our future is sleeping quietly inside our ideas.
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