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“Weeping may endure a night but joy cometh in the morning.”
Psalm 30:5
In 1915, Coffee County, Alabama was invaded by an insect called the boll weevil. This community’s main crop was cotton like much of the South, and this insect, the boll weevil, ate the leaves off the cotton thereby destroying the cotton crop. The entire community lost its livelihood and faced starvation. They were in a tough situation.
But instead of giving up, they did something incredible, they put their prejudice aside and invited an African American scientist, George Washington Carver, to come to the county. He was looking for the opportunity to display his research on crop rotation. He told them in so many words, don’t be upset because you lost your cotton crop. Your soil is still good for harvesting peanuts. And do you know what happened? They were able to harvest a peanut crop and rescue their community from economic disaster.
At the time many communities in the South were also being destroyed by the boil weevil. Those communities heard about Carver’s success in Coffee County, and increasing numbers began to turn to peanuts and sweet potatoes, and their derivatives for income. Much exhausted land was renewed, and the South became a major new supplier of agricultural products. Before Carver, the peanut had not even been recognized as a crop, but within the next half century it became one of the six leading crops throughout the United States and, in the South, the second cash crop (after cotton) by 1940. In 1942 the U.S. government allotted 5,000,000 acres of peanuts to farmers. Carver’s efforts had finally helped liberate the South from its excessive dependence on cotton and saved thousands of lives.
Are you in a tough situation? Are you facing economic disaster? Is your way of living being challenged? Is your life style being destroyed?
It may look bad but God maybe is giving you the opportunity of your life. He may be shaking up your life to show the terrific opportunity that is right in front you. He may be putting your life in an upheaval to bring to you the greatest blessing of your life. Open your eyes to see what God has for you!