What's In Your Sponge?

There are five sponges lying in your laundry tub.
For once every member of your family has been helping
to clean up different areas of your home.
All the sponges look the same.

You are curious as to where everyone cleaned
but you can't tell by looking - they all look the same.
Anyway, now it's time to clean up and put it all away!
You squeeze each sponge to clean it. As you squeeze the first sponge,
you see breadcrumbs so you decide that someone cleaned
the kitchen with that one. When you squeeze 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.
Someone has cleaned the garage!

In the fourth sponge, there's a strong smell of baby powder
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,
impatient 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 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!

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2Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts,
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them,
and they follow me:
1John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in us,
and his love is perfected in us.
1Peter 3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

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