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Sam Jones used to say something to this effect:  “If I started out to chop wood and you found me later sitting with my ax on my knees and not a chip in sight, what would you think if I said, ‘I’m waiting until I work up a sweat to chop wood?”  Sam concluded that the best way to work up a sweat is to start chopping wood.  Some of us are waiting for a feeling before we go to work for the Lord.  Obedience comes first, then the feeling.  “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them” (John 13:17).

Pepper ‘n Salt, Vance Havner, page 99