How’s this for a puzzling verse?<\/p>\n
“A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees”<\/font><\/b> (Psalm 74:5).<\/p>\n Huh?<\/p>\n Maybe it’s talking about the determination, courage, strength, and perseverance of a man willing to chop down a huge huge tree with a little axe.<\/p>\n Or maybe it’s talking about the futility and foolishness of it.<\/p>\n Or maybe it’s talking about a thicket of trees.<\/p>\n I don’t know.<\/p>\n But I do know I am challenged to tackle the opportunities and challenges God allows in my life with the tool(s) He has given me to use.<\/p>\n If all I have is an axe, then let me do my best with the axe.<\/p>\n And while I’m doing that, let me trust God to do what I cannot do.<\/p>\n Right now, it seems all I have is a butter knife.<\/p>\n Posted: December 26<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How’s this for a puzzling verse? “A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees” (Psalm 74:5). Huh? Maybe it’s talking about the determination, courage, strength, and perseverance of a man willing to chop down a huge huge tree with a little axe. Or maybe it’s talking about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}