DIRTY WATER

Dirty Water

When I was a child I used to get thirsty when I was playing outside. And as much as I wanted to go inside and get some water or juice the hose connected to the  water spicket outside was much more inviting and accommodating to me. I was lazy.  The one thing I remember about that darn hose or any hose for that matter even though systematically I was full my thirst was quenched for the moment the water though never was very satisfying in fact it was bitter. I was a child and like any child I had no clue what was in the water that I had been ingesting.  Any number of things could have spawned from this ..dysentery,  the runs, hepatitis, shoot maybe even good ole fashion e coli. As I got older and learned of the junk that is in spiket water I made an educated change of strategy and begin drinking good water straight from the facet. Hehehehe . Then I graduated to bottled water and filtered water.

How does someone change their culture their confession their perception from negative to positive.. Well just like the water I used to drink that was in some cases only meant to be used for irrigation …I have discovered it is vitally important for me to spend a lot of time considering the words I ingest the images my brain gets exposed to and the conversations I allow my self to listen too. You can take a perfectly clean cup right out of your cabinet and if you fill it with nasty toilet water it is going to be dirty as well. The same concept applies to us as people we can be perfectly cleansed forgive and set free from many strongholds and bondage but by the things we examine and allow our selves to listen to we can by proxy or directly become re infected again. How powerful are words anyways one might ask? Well words are so Powerful God chose to use words to create all things.

I have seen this played out in my life. If I am honest usually before every fall or every set back for me it is preceded with a conversation that is just complete junk. I allowed words to settle into my earls flow into my brain like a seed they take root and without fail I am all screwed up in most cases in worse shape then the day I first accepted Christ. And if people took notice they would never know I was a Christian. Proverbs says to guard your heart with all diligence because out of it springs the issues of life.  I don’t believe that proverb is referring to sharing things that we love or care about with others. I believe it is referring to an outside attack that can and will take place. It is spoken in a defense mode to guard is never referred to in any language or in any text in an offensive manner only in defensive portrayals. Well to begin to do this we must set up boundaries with our ears and eyes. Not let anything that could take root in our heart negative enter.

If we drink bitter water eventually we will become bitter. So if we continuously take in bitter communication we will become bitter. In all the reading I have done in all the sermons I have heard I have never in one passage or one sermon ever heard or read where Jesus entertained any kind of gossip or negative talk. Jesus took dominion over it. He guarded his heart by setting healthy boundaries.. He even once called peter the devil. Hehehe.

So much of my recent entries have been based on healthy outward communication. Yet to have healthy outward communication and expression of love we first must not just be a clean cup that will receive any kind of water. We must be the cup the refuses water that has not been filtered by the Holy Spirit. Because like a clean cup once dirty water gets in it the only thing we can do is contaminate other cups. Eventually all of our cups do over flow but its what were overflowing with that really matters. Hence the phrase garbage in garbage out.  Lets today decide that we are nolonger going to drink dirty water. Lets drink only living water.