But it wasn't easy. For one thing, I had never leveled a house by myself before. Leah did help at the end, because you have to have two people when using a water level. Please don't think that she wasn't willing to help more than that, she was, but I didn't want her crawling around under the house dragging concrete blocks. So I got the house level North to South, then East to West, and rechecked to make sure we were still on North to South. We were...or so I thought.
The thing was, everything looked right, but the back door still would not open easily, and once opened, it was nearly impossible to close. I couldn't figure it out. I explained the situation to my Dad, who helped me finish the job. The problem was that I had not checked everything. I know I was level the width of the house. I only checked the length down the middle and from corner to corner. Logic dictated that if I the house was level North to South, and down the middle of East to West then all areas of East to West should be level or the North to South wouldn't be level. It still makes perfect sense to me. But I was wrong, The house had sagged in the middle, which I didn't think possible with the metal beams it is sitting on. So while I was level lengthwise on the corners and down the middle, I wasn't level on the sides. Dad helped me with the water level, and I drug blocks and jacked the house up where it had sagged, added blocks and shims, and praise God, the door opens and closes now.
The point of this is that I couldn't see it. I didn't think those beams would sag. So If I was level at the ends, it didn't occur to me that the middle wouldn't be. It didn't make any sense to me, but I admitted I didn't know and gladly agreed to check the entire length when Dad suggested it. And he was right. It wasn't level somewhere. I thought I had fixed the problem, and I had gotten it close, but there was still more to do that I couldn't see to do or do myself.
This is a prime example of why we need to talk to someone for advice and accountability. The Holy Spirit can show us when we're not level spiritually, but sometimes we just can't see the solution or how we can still be off. Sometimes we need an outside perspective, especially from someone who has more experience than we do. No matter how long we've been in relationship with God, there are times when we can't see past our emotions, opinions, our logic and our experience to see the truth and the solution clearly until someone points it out to us.
Today, let us be quick to humble ourselves when we have done what we know to do and still have an issue with our spiritual level. Let us use wisdom about who to seek advice from, but once we have chosen someone with a good relationship with God to seek counsel from, let us listen with a prayerful spirit and an open mind, even when it may not make sense to us at first.
Let the wise hear and increase in learning,
and the one who understands obtain guidance...
- Proverbs 1:5
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