I sawed out a fingerboard blank from a 2 X 2 X 12 hunk of ebony the other day. Already made one out of it. When I started planing the radius on the top I found I had trouble. An inclusion. A defect. A hunk of scrap. I thought maybe planing it down a little further would make it go away. Kind of like the ostrich hiding it's head in the sand, only the planing made it worse. This is one of those things that, on almost a daily basis, bring to mind a story from God.
Take a look at people from Gods perspective. Everyone can look good on the outside. Trim them up a little, start to shape them to make them useful, and things can get ugly. Inclusions, defects, a hunk of scrap? No, something He shows us to become better people from. Something in our life that isn't easy, but in the end works out. He doesn't have to sweep us up and throw us in the trash can. He has a better plan
If you look at it from the people point of view it is a flaw in our character. Something we want to hide. When it comes out it looks even worse. And if others keep exposing it... well you get the picture. Trying to hide the flaws in our life is not going to work long. Sooner or later our anger will get riled up. Our greed will show through. Our love of self will be exposed.
The flaws in our life at least can be fixed. We can drop them off at the Lord's feet and let Gods grace fill the inclusion that has been carved out. What about this piece of ebony? I can make a tailpiece out of the bottom and maybe even a peg or two out of the top part. I'll throw away the inclusion, it doesn't need to be included.
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