Digging Trenches

During this time of quarantine, my family has decided to use our free time to finally run a water line from our house down to the pool area. The trench needed to be 2 feet deep and it needed to be ran for approximately 30 feet. I thought that this little project would be EASY. I grabbed the pick-axe and a shovel and me and my older brother went to work.

We started off digging with the shovels and quickly realized that was going to take forever. So I grabbed the pick-axe and started swinging it like a wild man. Exhausting work. But anyone that knows me knows that when I'm working on a project I take pride in my work. So the thought in my head quickly became, "I am the only one out here that can swing this pick-axe."

My older brother kept offering to take over and I kept swinging. My 14 year old brother even offered to use the shovel to soften the ground in front of where I was swinging (at a safe distance of course) and I told him not to worry about it. I've GOT this!

After about a hour I realized that I, in fact, do not "GOT this"! I was getting exhausted and I needed a break. I swallowed my pride and asked my younger brother to start breaking ground with the shovel and I handed the pick-axe over to my older brother. And something CRAZY happened... Our productivity shot up BIG TIME! It turned out that I wasn't the only one that could handle what we were doing and more hands make less work.

I wonder how many times God tries to "take the pick-axe" from us and we say "I've GOT this!"

The pick-axe in this situation could represent a number of things. We have stress, fear, depression, and anxiety and God is saying, "Just give it to me!" He WANTS to give you rest!

When I handed over that pick-axe today, my brother let me grab some water and rest and when I came back... THE JOB WAS FINISHED!

God is offering YOU that same rest during this season!

During this time of COVID-19 everyone is trying to FIX everything so the world will go back to how it was but God is sitting back watching and waiting just saying, "Give it to me and REST! I've GOT this!"

But how do we get that REST? We hand over our emotions (the fear, the anxiety, the doubt), we lay it at His feet and then... then we never pick it back up. Why would we need to? Once we give it to Him: IT. IS. FINISHED!

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Have a blessed week, Ethan Corbett.