SAWING WOOD

I spent the last 24 hours helping students make an imprint on Knoxville. 24/7 has been our Spring retreat (advance) this year. We provided students with 3 service projects and they got creative and found ways to share the love of God and serve Knoxville. One of our projects was cleaning a fence row at the Wesley House. Wesley is a children's center that helps kids in our inner city. 89% of them are from single parent homes and after being in the program 80% of them are on the honor roll. We cleaned the fence row over our High School and Middle School Weekends. Today we decided some chain saws would help us move a little faster. They did, but in the process the chain on one kept popping off. When I used it on thicker trees it was fine. That is what is was made for. However, when I tried to use it as a weed eater on steroids, it acted up. The little stuff tripped it up. Come to think of it, I'm like that a lot of the time. When I am doing the things God has gifted me for and called me to, I'm fine. It is when I get bogged down in little knit picky things that I get off track. When I worry about other peoples sins, the devil has his way with me. When I care too much what others think about me, Lord have mercy. But when I focus on just being obedient to God in my life, I feel victorious. Guess that is a pretty good reason to just keep chopping wood instead of sawing weeds!