A Blacksmith Pounding With All His Might

 

 

I looked at my hands.

Then I looked at the blacksmith's hands.

Then I looked again at my hands and thought, "I'm soft."

I met this iron-bending, horseshoe-making, anvil-hammering fellow a few days ago, on an old plantation a few miles from New Orleans. "I graduated from Horse Shoeing School in '73," he said. "Been shoeing horses ever since." 

I sat and listened, marveling at his skills and listening to the tales he told of shoeing horses that "toed-in" or "toed-out" or "wore uneven."

He made customized horseshoes, pounding and shaping them with all his might.

We talked for quite a while.

I was impressed by what a man can do when he pounds with all his might.

 

Isaiah 44:12  -  The blacksmith stands at his forge to make a tool, pounding and shaping it with all his might.