GOD REMOVES SPLINTERS
One day while playing on a wooden picnic table, four year old Jordan ran a splinter into his finger. Sobbing, he called his father at the office. “I want God to take the splinter out,” he said. I told him his mother could remove it very easily. But he wanted God to do it because when Mom takes a splinter out, it hurts. He wanted God to remove it “by Himself.” When I got home an hour later, the splinter was still there, so I proceeded to remove it, and I tried to teach Jordan that sometimes God uses others to do his work. And sometimes it is painful.
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