I’m “chinking” the log walls of my home this week.  It’s where you fill in the cracks and spaces between the logs with a type of caulking.  The caulking sticks to the logs as it dries.  A foam brush is used, ( I prefer to use my thumb), to help coat the edges of the two logs.  This caulking is elastic.  It will stretch and give over time as the logs settle.  You put a foam backer rod behind the chinking.  (see the black foam in the picture).  The idea is this.  The chinking sticks to the logs above and below, only two directions.  This allows it to stretch but still hold firmly.  If the backer rod were not behind the chinking, it would be pulled in Three directions…….and not hold!!

Try holding a rubber band.  when you pull it in two directions, it stretches!  Try pulling it in three directions at once…….. it breaks.  There must be some physics law or reason for this.  All I know is this.  I’m putting this chinking between the logs to last.  To last for a long time.  To last, well, as long as my house is standing……… to the very end.

 But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.  We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. Hebrews 3:13,14

Just like my log house, we ourselves face many things that can cause us to crack.  Things that you face and are going through can cause you to come unglued.  Hold fast to your conviction.  Here’s you….. and here’s God.  Stay connected, glued, stuck, held firmly with Him.

Some kind of physics law I guess, but when we get “pulled” in several directions, we tend to snap don’t we?  Keep   that bond between you and God tight.  Let Him “pull” you in His one direction.  Under “His” thumb…… it’s a good place to be.

See Ya!  Dan Ainsworth wilderness preacher