Dropping Our Wrench
“Walk upright and redeem the time for the days are evil…” Eph. 5:16
While I was a student at ETBC in Marshall, Texas, I signed up for two semesters of Greek from Dr. C. E. Roark. He was a former gymnast who at the age of sixty could still do a back flip. At the beginning of each semester, he gave us the same pep talk.
He said that forty percent of us would either drop out or flunk out before semester’s end and that we had to be present and on time for every class. “If you get behind in this class, you’ll never catch up,” he warned.
He told about an auto assembly plant where a car came through the final assembly line one day with only a chassis. When someone asked what happened, the foreman replied, “Somebody must’ve dropped their wrench”.
In both the spiritual and physical realm, our success depends on more than our natural talent or education. There’s a possibility that our life’s work could wind up being only a chassis... if we drop our wrench.
By Doug Fincher July 7, 2005
While I was a student at ETBC in Marshall, Texas, I signed up for two semesters of Greek from Dr. C. E. Roark. He was a former gymnast who at the age of sixty could still do a back flip. At the beginning of each semester, he gave us the same pep talk.
He said that forty percent of us would either drop out or flunk out before semester’s end and that we had to be present and on time for every class. “If you get behind in this class, you’ll never catch up,” he warned.
He told about an auto assembly plant where a car came through the final assembly line one day with only a chassis. When someone asked what happened, the foreman replied, “Somebody must’ve dropped their wrench”.
In both the spiritual and physical realm, our success depends on more than our natural talent or education. There’s a possibility that our life’s work could wind up being only a chassis... if we drop our wrench.
By Doug Fincher July 7, 2005