There are certain situations in your Smith Mountain Lake office or at home, that a pencil is the only writing utensil that is appropriate. Some people thought pencils would become obsolete with the introduction of so many varieties of pens on the market. But there are times when nothing but a pencil will do.
There are more uses for the pencil than just writing or sketching too. They make great a great analogy for our lives.
A. With a pencil, each time you use it, you leave a mark on something. The same with the choices we make in life. Each one leaves it’s mark for good or for evil.
B. When you make a mistake with a pencil, you can always correct it. In life it requires great humility and sometimes hard work to correct our mistakes, but it can usually be done.
C. A pencil does not look classy or important and yet we can hardly do without them. What that little pencil is made of is what really counts.
D. Pencils must be sharpened in order to be useful. If we do not submit to the sharpenings (hard times) in our lives, we will not continue to grow and be useful either.
E. Most important of all, a pencil cannot be an effective or helpful tool unless it is held in capable hands. We too must be guided by wiser and stronger hands than ourselves if we are to be the best people we can possibly be in this world.
C. A pencil does not look classy or important and yet we can hardly do without them. What that little pencil is made of is what really counts.
D. Pencils must be sharpened in order to be useful. If we do not submit to the sharpenings (hard times) in our lives, we will not continue to grow and be useful either.
E. Most important of all, a pencil cannot be an effective or helpful tool unless it is held in capable hands. We too must be guided by wiser and stronger hands than ourselves if we are to be the best people we can possibly be in this world.
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool or utensil such as a pencil……..or a human life guided by the hand of it’s Maker.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Pastor George // Aug 6, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Very true thought on being useful. Most people will never know what effect they have had on the Kingdom of our Lord until they get home.
2 Paul Moore // Aug 10, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Thanks Pastor, we agree with you. Thanks for reading our posts.
3 Mrs. Nicholson // Sep 29, 2010 at 12:47 pm
So I guess God is like the pencil sharpener or the gardener who prunes the vines, etc. I like the analogy even though it does not always feel good to be sharpened or to know we have such great responsibility in the marks we leave.
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