SOAK!!

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 334

June 20, 2017

One night this past week we had a pan with stuck on food pieces.  It looked like it would never be clean and might have to be thrown away.

However I put a little dishwashing detergent on it and filled it with water and let it soak overnight.  Guess what!! The next morning the stuck on particles just washed right off.

I could have struggles and scrubbed and fumed and worked and I might have gotten some of it off but I chose to soak it over night in water and dishwashing liquid and it was easy to just rinse on off.

Why am I sharing a story about my pan with you? Because there is a very special spiritual truth in this story!

In our walk in this crazy world we live in we sometimes get particles of left over stuff stuck on us. We may have fretting, unforgiveness, impatience, irritations, prejudice, roots of rejection, etc just stuck and hanging on pulling us down in our minds, wills, and emotions and especially in our spirits.

These things tend to make us feel like we are never going to be clean and we just need to be discarded, thrown away, no longer useful.

But may I tell you today that if you will soak in the water of the word and just let the word fill you through and through and the Holy Spirit (which I equate with the dishwashing detergent) do a work in you then you can be clean and useful to live life as it is supposed to be lived and to point others to the giver of life!!

We can fret, fume, be depressed, blame everyone else and just give up or we can choose life by soaking in the word and letting the holy spirit cleanse us.

The Psalmist David said it so good:

Psalm 51:2 (KJV)
² Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 16:11 (KJV)
¹¹ Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

 Psalm 97:5 (KJV)
⁵ The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

I say to you today that everything you need and everything you need to be free from is found as we sit in His presences and let His word fill us. There is wisdom, joy, peace and freedom found as we soak in His powerful presences and let His words of life give life to our spirit.

Psalm 140:13 (KJV)
¹³ Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

Nahum 1:5 (KJV)
⁵ The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 (KJV)
²³ And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Whatever is stuck, whatever is missing, whatever needs cleansing and filling is taken care of as we soak in HIS PRESENCE!

What do you need? Stop trying to scrub and fret and take care of it, just soak in the Love that the Father has already proved to us! Then the things we struggle with will just rinse right off!!

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Father thank you that in your presence is fullness of joy!  Thank you that all we need is ours as we spend time just soaking in your word and in your presence.  May I never depend on myself for cleansing but always snuggle close to you. Bless all who read this with a desire for you and a desire for your presence.  Amen

Let the Creator God cleanse and set you free!

Love, MeMaw