There are 5 sponges laying on a kitchen counter top.
Each member of your family has been cleaning up different areas of
your
home, but all the sponges look the same. You are curious as to what
was
cleaned in your home, but you can't tell by looking...they all look
the
same....
So what do you do?
You squeeze each sponge to see what comes out.
As you squeeze the first sponge, you see that cola comes out, and so
you
decide that someone cleaned the kitchen with that one.
Upon squeezing the second sponge, you find tub and tile cleaner --
that
one was used to clean the bathroom.
Next, in the third sponge, you find motor oil -- someone was cleaning
the garage!
In the fourth sponge, baby powder puffs out when it is squeezed --
yep,
the baby's nursery was done with that one!
And finally, in the last one, is floor wax -- that was the one that
was
used on the hall floor.
As you lay the last one down, you look again at their similarity --
and
they all look the same until they're squeezed.
Christians are the same way.
As life squeezes us, different things come out;
Anger from one,
a need for revenge from another,
tears from one,
remorse from yet another --
also greed,
untruth,
lust -- and finally,
from one saint, pours forth the love of Christ.
Just like the sponge, we can only squeeze out what is put in -- stay
in
the Word daily, and be in continuous prayer, so that
when life puts the squeeze on you (and it WILL), Jesus, and Jesus
ALONE
will shine forth from you!
Be encouraged.
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