Ever wondered why God hasn’t felt like enough?
Picture a big box.
Inside that big box are dozens of little boxes all floating around.
The top and bottom of each little box is a trap door, locked shut.
Now imagine filling the big box with water.
As the water begins to fill the big box, it is unable to penetrate the locked little boxes.
No matter how much water you pour into your big box, there will still be empty spaces.
Take a moment and dwell on what you've pictured.
Our souls have boxes within them, boxes we’ve closed off. Pieces of our lives that we associate with pain, shame or fear we have locked shut and attempted to hid away. As we let the Lord into our lives, He is only able to fill us as completely as we allow. As long as we have locked boxes, there will always be empty spaces and He will never feel like enough.
Don’t allow shame, fear and guilt to take up our souls. For our Lord “pursues us past all our talent and hard work into the secret places of our hearts where sin and inadequacy and brokenness hide, and he rejoices to claim us there as his own.”As we share our little boxes, speaking words, telling secrets, struggles and sins, the bottoms and tops of the boxes are removed. The Lord is now able to flow freely through them. He is able to fill us more completely.
John 7:37 “Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
Streams of living water no longer dammed but flow freely though our souls, bringing cleansing, refreshing water that brings full life. “I have come that they may have life and have it to the fullest.”John 10:10
Allow the locks to be broken and streams of living water to flow through you. For we have been forgiven.
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