Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Here is some old wisdom for us today.
Text: Hebrews 4:9-11.
I heard someone give an illustration once about a wooden well bucket he came upon. He thought it was useless at first, because it had been sitting next to a barn in the sun, unused for a long time. He could see daylight between the wooden slats of the bucket. Certainly, this thing would never hold water again.
But an older man with him tied the bucket to the well rope and let it drop into the water below. In a couple of days they came back and turned the crank to draw the bucket back up. It was full of clear, cool well water and was not leaking a drop.
The water had re-hydrated the wooden slats until they fit together as originally designed, and the bucket was useful again.
Sometimes in life we just need to stop and rest for a few days where we can clear our heads and so we can be useful to others again.
William James Roop
