This man was painting the church one Saturday to get it nice and spiffy for services on Sunday. He had two sides of the church done when he realized that he didn’t have quite enough paint to finish. Since he was many miles from where he could buy more paint and he was running out of time, he decided to thin the paint down to have enough to finish the job.
After finishing the third wall, he realized he had to thin the paint even more to make it stretch. He finally finished and stood back to admire his work when it started to rain. He watched in dismay while the paint ran down the windows and exposed the old color on the last two walls he had painted.
The pastor came outside to see what was going on and saw the look of disappointment on the man’s face. The man confessed what he had done to make the paint last. The pastor, wanting to ease the man’s burden said, “Then repaint, and thin no more.”