1 Corinthians 2:1-16
“Do it God’s
way”. Has there ever been a time in your
life that you knew that something had
to be done your way? I used to have a
job working at a nursery doing a variety of different things. One of the things I did was to do the regular
maintenance on the tractors. I grew up
being able to drive a tractor and work on tractors some. Over the years I learned quite a bit more
about mechanic work. My boss told me to
jack up the tractor when I greased the king-pin joint in the front in. He didn’t tell me why. I thought he was telling me to lift up the
tractor so I could get underneath the tractor better. But when I did the first maintenance on the
tractor I didn’t jack it up. I didn’t
need to lift it up because I could slide underneath it pretty easily.
After I
finished the work, my boss asked me if I had remembered to jack it up. I said
that I didn’t because I could reach the joint without having to lift it
up. At that point he told me that it
needed to be lifted up not so that I could reach the joint easier but so that
the pressure would be lifted off of the front wheels, allowing the grease to
penetrate all parts of the joint better.
I didn’t follow his directions because I didn’t think he knew the best
way of doing it. This nursery had been
in the family for a 100 years and he had been doing nursery work since he was a
little kid. And he had been working on
tractors for no telling how long. But
for some reason, I thought I knew best.
