UCB Word For Today 8 May 2022 Sunday | The Power of God-Given Ideas (3)
Read and Meditate on Today’s United Christian Broadcasters, UCB Word for Today Sunday 8th May 2022. God bless you as you study!
UCB WORD FOR TODAY MAY 8, 2022 SUNDAY DEVOTIONAL
TODAY’S TOPIC: THE POWER OF GOD-GIVEN IDEAS 3
SCRIPTURE: ‘All peoples on earth will be blessed through you.’ – Genesis 28:14 NIV
In What the World Owes to Christians, Dr Victor Pierce, an Oxford scholar, shares the story of the typewriter. ‘The typewriter was a forerunner to the modern word processor. But how did a Christian come to invent it? To write sermons. Seriously!
Christopher Sholes was concerned about his pastor who’d been busy all week visiting victims of an epidemic, comforting the bereaved and conducting funerals. Consequently he had no time to write his Sunday sermons. One day Sholes, discussing with a friend what could be done, said, “It seems a pity there ain’t some quick method of writing for busy folks like parsons.” His friend replied, “Why not invent a machine?” Sholes responded, “I’ll try.” That rainy afternoon was the beginning of months of hard work. Finally a group assembled one day to see him tap out on paper, in capital letters, C LATHAM SHOLES, NOV 1867.
Six years later the Remingtons recognised the typewriter as something that could revolutionise business. In those days clerks were mostly men, but the Young Women’s Christian Association started offering courses in typing for women. Initially it created a scandal, but as the first typists to be trained were women, employers rushed to hire them. Hence the typewriter and the YWCA determined that a woman’s place was not only at home, but could also be in the office.’ Is it okay for me to pray for God to bless my business? Yes! God wants to bless your business so that you can help carry out His, which is the business of reaching the world with the gospel.
BIBLE READING: Luke 9:1-17, Psalms 49-50
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