Fresh Water

Mesa Arch at Sunrise- Canyonlands National Park, Moab, Utah


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With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. 10Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. 11Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water."

-James 3:9-12

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God put these verses on my heart this morning and I thought they would make a great follow up to yesterday's post about being set apart. It's a great analogy to remember that we are different... we can not be fresh water springs and all of a sudden start giving off salt water. It's not who we are or who we were made to be. And if we DO start giving off salt water, something must be seriously wrong!

James is probably one of my most favorite books in the Bible... it's short, but OH SO potent! One could easily spend months reading it verse by verse and gaining knowledge on how we are called to live. It's convicting and inspiring at the same time - but that is SO God! He doesn't want us to live in condemnation, he wants us to realize the error of our ways, repent, and move forward. Know that no matter how big you think the sin is, God sees every sin the same. It's really hard to think of it like that, because as humans we tend to see murder, for instance, as a worse sin than gossiping.

A friend of mine used this picture once as an example... Think of a milk jug. After we have used it some we can see from the side how much milk is left in the jug. If you look in to it from the top, you can't tell how much has been used because you don't have a reference point. This is how God sees sin from the top with no reference point. He not only KNOWS that we are going to sin... he expects us to. With that said, he has an over abundance of grace just waiting to be poured all over us when we realized what we have done and return to Him. No sin is too big or too small for our Father to forgive.

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  1. Loved this one, Dani. Especially the analogy. :)

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