Friday, September 9, 2011

What’s in the bucket?

While on stateside assignment one year, we visited one of the Great Wolf Lodge resorts. It’s a huge, EXTREME indoor water park, with ridiculously fast slides.

In the center of the park is a really fun water playground. Perched about 3 or 4 stories above this network of walkways, water cannons, bridges and smaller slides is a massive bucket, continually being filled with water. Imagine your bedroom being filled with water; that’s about how much water this bucket holds.

Every 10 minutes or so, the bucket begins to reach the tipping point as it overflows with water, and then the deluge falls, flooding the playground below. A loud bell is rung when it’s about to tip over, so kids -- yeah, adults, too -- from all over the park come running to stand under the bucket and feel the weight of the flood hitting them from that high above.

“The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out” (Proverbs 17:14).

Imagine for a minute that all that water represents sin, and the bucket is your heart. You know what’s going to happen if you keep letting your heart fill up with anger and hatred and bitterness toward others?

When you feel strife building up inside you, the best thing is to immediately go to the Lord with it, or even perhaps talk to a brother or sister in Christ who can help you go to the Lord with it. Nothing good comes from reaching the tipping point.

God, continually fill up our hearts to overflowing with Good stuff from You today, and let that be what pours out for those around us.

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