Splitting Wood!

Have you ever split wood with an axe? It is a hard and difficult job. If your axe isn't sharp, you are fighting a losing battle. When we find ourselves in a hard spot in life it can be just like splitting wood. We need to be sharpened the right way to be able to deal with the situation in a proper spirit. If the blade of a axe has been sharpened at the wrong angle, it's worse than it was before we tried sharpening it. Don't let a hard time cause us to respond in the wrong way. God does want to shaprpen us the proper way and he can if we cooperate. It will be easily seen by our response. If we don't respond properly, we make the situation much more difficult. A humble and gracious spirit are good indicators we have been sharpened at the right angle!