There are 5 sponges laying on your kitchen counter top. Each
member of your family has been cleaning up different areas of
your home, but all of 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 ... hubby 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 you 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 God's 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!