Don’t let others decide what your attitude will be.  We can do right despite what someone else does.  We must make the best of the circumstances we are given.

---A blacksmith makes $5 worth of iron into horseshoes and gets $10 for them.
---A cutler makes the same iron into knives and gets $200.
---A machinist makes the same iron into needles and gets $6800.
---A watchmaker takes the same iron and makes it into mainsprings and gets $200,000; or into hair-springs and gets two million dollars, sixty times the value of the same weight of gold.

     Strange as it may seem, the honeybee makes her honey from exactly the same nectar from which the hermit spider distills one of the deadliest poisons known to man.  The bee’s makeup allows her to produce honey, while the hermit spider’s allows her to produce poison.  Only one brings a smile to the lips of a child.  Two people can respond to the same circumstances in completely different ways.  One will use them to produce “honey” to the glory of God, and the other will produce “poison” to the shame of his Maker.  Think of the honey that Joseph made with the circumstances his brothers provided for him (Gen.37-50).