Danger! God's Word at Work

Danger! God’s Word at Work
Hebrews 4.11-13

I washed the kitchen knife, put it down for a moment and then picked it up to dry it. As I did so, I felt what seemed like a slight tickle at the end of one finger. I looked down, and to my surprise and alarm saw blood spurting out of a neat, straight cut across the end. I hadn’t realized that our new kitchen knife had a double blade, and in picking it up – carefully, as I’d imagined – I had for a moment run my finger across the reverse side, which seemed to have been every bit as sharp as the main edge. The sharper a blade is, of course, the less you feel when you cut yourself. It had gone straight through skin and into flesh with no trouble at all...

Taken from Hebrews for Everyone – by Tom Wright