“Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”~ Psa. 100:3
One definition of the word whittle is: carve (wood) into an object by repeatedly cutting small slices from it; reduce something in size, amount, or extent by a gradual series of steps. The old-time country whittler has become almost extinct in our age, except in some isolated places. I observed as a boy the one characteristic each possessed was patience.
Like a hard piece of wood, the Lord has been patiently working on some of our lives a long time, cutting away everything that doesn’t resemble His Son. It has been difficult for both of us I think: Him in waiting, us in resisting!
Not a few of us have been our own whittlers for years. Attempting to delicately make ourselves into the image of Christ which we have conjured up in our own vain imagination. The purpose being to have something we and others can worship when completed. “They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them,” Psa. 135:18.
It is time for many of us, don’t you think, to lay aside our whittling tool and become just a plain old piece of wood in our WHITTLER'S HAND! When we see the finished product we will be glad we did.
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"Psalm 100:3 KJV — Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
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