A young man was looking for work and went to a lumber yard wondering if anyone would hire him. The manager spoke to him and told him he could go to the woods and start chopping down trees, agreeing to pay him a decent salary, including health insurance. The man cut down 18 trees on his first day, and the manager complimented him and told him to continue on a daily basis. On the second day he was able to cut down 15 trees, and on the third day 12. And every day he continued to cut less and less, wondering if he was getting too tired. So he went to the manager and apologized to him, and told him that even though he was doing his best, he is cutting fewer trees, and didn't really know why this was happening as he had started so enthusiastically. The manager asked him when is the last time he sharpened this axe. The man was surprised ‘sharpen my axe? I have no time to sharpen my axe because I rush to work rightaway to cut as many trees as possible.’
Such is our life. We’re always rushing from one project to another, and are always busy with things to do, read the newspaper, watch TV, listening to the radio, entertain friends, take part in sports, and trying to fit into our schedule anything that interests us. We’re so busy that we don’t have time to sharpen our spiritual axe. We have time for everything but not to attend church, to pray, to do something philanthropic to help others. God seems to be in the last place on our priority list, because there are many other projects and plans that we consider as more important. We really need God to help us sharpen our axe, so that we can chop down more spiritual trees.
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