I 'yam what I am, and dats all what I 'yam

Popeye in his first solo cartoon, I Yam What I Am (His first appearance was actually in a Betty Boop cartoon, Popeye the Sailor). While Olive Oyl is rowing a life-boat with Wimpy in the back of the boat (eating big fish) and Popeye in the front singing his I'm Popeye the Sailor Man song with the line "I 'yam what I am, and dats all what I 'yam!" This is exactly how God wants us to respond to adversity in our life. As Oswald Chambers says, 

The way we continually talk about our own inability is an insult to the Creator. The deploring of our own incompetence is a slander against God for having overlooked us . . . To say Thank God, I know I am saved and sanctified is in the sight of God the acme of humility . . . (November 30)

1 Corinthians 15:10 (KJV)

But by the grace of God I am what I am . . .

Popeye and Betty Boop doing the hula
in Popeye the Sailor - 1933

I thank God for who and what I am and I know I am saved and sanctified!

Popeye singing the verse, ""I 'yam what I am, and dats all what I 'yam!"
in I Yam What I Yam - 1933 

Popeye in I Yam What I Yam - 1933

Popeye and Betty Boop in Popeye the Sailor - 1933

"Popeye" & "Betty Boop" - Max Fleischer Studios; Paramount Pictures 
I Yam What I Yam Release date: September 29, 1933;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Yam_What_I_Yam 
Popeye the Sailor Release date: July 14, 1933; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye_the_Sailor_(1933_cartoon)
My Utmost for His Highest —Copyright © 1935 by Dodd, Mead & Company; Copyright renewed by Oswald Chambers Publications 1963 & 1993—Retrieved from http://www.myutmost.org/

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