gold

At one time Andrew Carnegie was the wealthiest man in America. He came to America from his native Scotland when he was a small boy, did a variety of odd jobs, and eventually ended up as the largest steel manufacturer in the United States. At one time he had forty-three millionaires working for him.

A reporter asked Carnegie how he had hired forty-three millionaires. Carnegie responded that those men had not been millionaires when they started working for him but had become millionaires as a result. 

The reporter's next question was, "How did you develop these men to become so valuable to you that you have paid them this much money?" Carnegie replied that “these men were developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get one ounce of gold.  But one doesn't go into the mine looking for dirt -- one goes in looking for the gold.” 

That's exactly the way that Christians need to view other people.  Don't look for the flaws, the warts, and the blemishes, look for their godly qualities.  Look for the gold, not for the dirt.  Look for the good, not the bad. Look for the positive aspects of their life. Like everything else, the more good qualities we look for in people, the more good qualities we are going to find.

Today, you may have to look through several tons of dirt - but keep looking, fof the gold!!!

“I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'The LORD is our God.'" (Zechariah 13:9)

“He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness.” (Malachi 3:3)