Faithfulness

Written by Pete O'Keeffe

May 09, 2023

Faithfulness requires making 100 per cent of your effort, 100 per cent of the time.

According to statistics compiled by the Communications Division of Insight, Syncrude Canada Ltd, it was stated that if 99.9 per cent was good enough,…

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· 103,260 income tax returns would be processed incorrectly that year…

· 22,000 cheques would be deducted from the wrong bank accounts within that next sixty minutes…

· 12 babies would be given to the wrong parents each day…

· two plane landings daily at O’Hare International Airport would be unsafe…

· 18,322 pieces of mail would be mishandled within that next hour…

· 291 pacemaker operations would be performed incorrectly that year…

· 880,000 credit cards in circulation would turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips…

· 20,000 incorrect medicine prescriptions would be written within that next twelve months…

· 107 incorrect medical procedures would be performed by the end of that day.

These facts are sobering statistics – especially if you are one of those affected!

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than me…and he’ll get me through. Don’t panic…don’t give up…be patient…God’s in control. It ain’t over till it’s over.’

Faithfulness can turn the most menial job into a vitally important one.

40% of the things we worry about never happen

30% are in the past and can’t be helped

12% involve the affairs of others that are not our business

10% relate to sickness, real or imagined

Thus only 8% of the things we worry about are likely to happen.

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