Monday, July 14, 2008

YOU CAN BE A WINNER IF YOU TAKE A REST

My Youth Pastor preached about the value of rest in God's kingdom. He made a simple illustration as follows. Two wood cutters entred into a competeition to see who would cut the largest amount of wood. They had the whole day to compete. Wood cutter 1 worked very hard and only taking a short break for lunch. Wodd cutter 2, equally worked hard but took quite a number of breaks between cutting the wood. At sunset, judges came to announce the winner. Surpise, surprise, the winner was wood cutter 2 who took not less than 5 breaks. Wood cutter 1 was quite disturbed and wanted to find out how it happened that he had less wood than wood cutter 2. Wood cutter 2 responded that the trick was his breaks. He took time to sharpen his axe each time he took the break, thus he cut his wood with efficiency. Likewise, people recharge and work better after a break. It is no wonder that God rested on the 7th day when he created the world. He encouraged those he created (us) to take a break every week.Shouldn't you?

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