Day Twenty-Three Forty Days of Focus: Relationships

Proverbs 27:17, "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." When was the last time you tried to cut into a ripe tomato with a dull knife? I did this just last week and it did not end well. Fortunately we have a nice knife sharpener in our kitchen. After dragging the dull knife through the sharpener a few times I tried again and what a difference it made. The knife didn't look any different but it sure worked better. Just a small bit of rubbing off the edges made the knife a lot more useful. How useful are you for the Lord's work? Could you use a little bit of sharpening yourself? The Bible says we are sharpened by our friends. Having good friends is like having a knife sharpener in your kitchen to rub the edges until they are clean and sharp.