Soaking up His message to be squeezed and poured out whatever He needs water.
How about you? Are you a sponge that soaks up the water of the word of God or some type of synthetic material that pushes more water than it has the capacity to absorb.
A sponge absorbs, swells and sees a change in its structure and is capable of holding water that can be squeezed out for so many applications. But some material, that claims to be more absorbent, pushes more water than it picks up.
I don't know about you, but for me, I like a good old sponge. This new stuff they market, that pushes water around, is useless. This saucer had a 1/4 cup of water in it until I dropped this sponge in it. Glory!! Give me a sponge...
I want to be a sponge that soaks up and holds the precious water of the word of God. I pray I swell up with it, so I'm so sensitive to the slightest touch, that it doesn't take much at all for His word to pressed and squeezed out of me. Like Stephen and Phillip in Acts 7 and 8. Sponges of truth that the Lord continued to dip in His bucket of life and squeeze out wherever He wanted. They were not mere men who just pushed the word around when it seemed best to them. Soak it up my friends, let it change you, hold on to it and let Him use you to water those He brings into your path. Blessings to each of you and your nest...on this lovely day we call Sunday.
Sometimes a good visual drives the point home... I was teaching on being discerning and sensitive to God's Spirit. Philip was one of those guys who didn't try to rethink what God told Him... when he said leave the crowds in Samaria to go to a desert road, he went. When the Lord told him to overtake that
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