As a youth, Hafid was a camel boy for the wealthy trader, Pathros. When given the opportunity to be a salesman for Pathros, Hafid gives away the one item he had to sell, a red robe, to an infant in a manger. When Hafid returns, Pathros gives him a box containing 10 ancient scrolls. After putting the scrolls to use, Hafid becomes the greatest salesman in the world. Late in life, in retirement, Hafid waits for the one to arrive to whom he is destined to give the scrolls. Paul, a Jewish Christian, arrives at Hafid’s house to meet Hafid. After seeing the red robe he once gave to the baby in the manger, Hafid gives Paul the scrolls.

1.Today I begin a new life. 2.I will greet each day with love in my heart. 3.I will persist until I succeed. 4.I am nature’s greatest miracle. 5.I will live this day as if it is my last. 6.Today I will master of my emotions. 7.I will laugh at the world. 8.Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold. 9.I will act now. 10.I will pray for guidance.

1.Never again will I pity or belittle myself. 2.Never again will I greet the dawn without a map. 3.Always will I bathe my days in the golden glow of enthusiasm. 4.Never again will I be disagreeable to a living soul. 5.Always will I seek the seed of triumph in every adversity. 6.Never again will I perform any task at less than my best. 7.Always will I throw my whole self into the task at hand. 8.Never again will I wait and hope for opportunity to embrace me. 9.Always will I examine, each night, my deeds of the fading day. 10.Always will I maintain contact, through prayer, with my creator.

1.All people are sinful. 2.Christ died to pay the penalty for our sins. 3.Salvation is available to all. 4.Our salvation is unearned, and we are saved by trusting completely in Christ and His finished work. 5.We must ask Christ to come into our lives. 6. When we receive Christ, we experience a new birth. We become a new person. 7. We are assured eternal life with God. 8. We experience freedom from the penalty of sin. 9. We become like Christ. 10.We discover God’s limitless love. (Romans 3)

flogged 5 times beaten with rods 3 times stoned until his assailants thought he was dead shipwrecked three times stranded in the open ocean after his ship was destroyed for a night and a day threatened by bandits threatened by other Jews threatened by Gentiles attacked from within his group forced to go without sleep, water, and food forced to travel naked and in the cold all the while bearing the weight of concern for the new Christian Church that was established largely through his efforts (2 Corinthians 11:24-28)

“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.” Philippians 3:7-8

“For the Lord himself will come down from Heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first…Now brothers about times and dates we do not need to write you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 5:1-2

“On the contrary, they saw that I had been entrusted with the task of preaching the Gospel to the Gentiles, just as Peter had been to the Jews. For God, who was at work in the ministry of Peter as an apostle to the Jews, was also at work in my ministry as an apostle to the Gentiles.” Galatians 2:7-8

Hafid was counted among the most wealthy men of his era. He lived a long, comfortable life and died because of old age. Paul went about wearing rags, hungry, and without adequate rest. He was chased out of almost every city he entered, and he had to run away predominantly on foot. Paul spent much of his life in jail and was eventually beheaded by the Roman government.