The Three-Legged Stool in Grandfather's Workshop

In a woodshop in Waco, Texas, a furniture maker named Harold Benton spent sixty years building three-legged stools. He told every apprentice the same thing: "A three-legged stool never wobbles. Cut one leg short, and the whole thing topples." Harold's rule holds for what Ezra did with the Word of God. The text says Ezra "set his heart" — a phrase that carries the weight of a deliberate, irreversible decision — to do three things in an unbreakable sequence.…