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Post by benshelpmeet on Sept 21, 2004 11:03:25 GMT -5
Five Sponges
There are five sponges laying on your kitchen counter. Each member of your family has been cleaning up different areas of your home, but all the sponges look the same. You are curious as to what was cleaned, but you can't tell by looking. They all look the same. So, what do you do? As you squeeze the first sponge you see that cola comes out, and you decide that someone cleaned the kitchen with that one. Upon squeezing the second sponge, you find tub and tile cleaner. That one was used in the bathroom. In the third sponge you find motor oil. Someone cleaned the garage. In the fourth sponge, baby power puffs out. The baby's nursery was cleaned with that one. In the last sponge 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.
They all look the same until they are squeezed. Christians are the same!
As life squeezes us, different things come out: anger, revenge, tears, remorse, 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, Jesus, and Jesus alone will shine forth.
As you think upon this, ask yourself, if I was squeezed, would Jesus and Jesus alone shine forth?
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Post by debelynne on Sept 21, 2004 16:15:44 GMT -5
Great analogy Darlene...I have one too I hope I re-tell it right...ok, here goes....There is these kids who want to go to a movie, so they ask their dad...the dad questions about the movie...the kids say that there is just a little crap in it, no big deal, they see no reason why they can't go see it...the dad finally agrees, but first he wants to make them something special before they go, after he finishes preparing their surprise he has them sit down to taste it before they go to the movie in question...he has made them some brownies...they look real good...he tells them they all have to taste the brownies before leaving to the movies...the kids seem to have no problem with it until the dad tells them he put just a little crap in them, and since the kids have no problem with a little crap in the movie they shouldn't mind a little crap in their brownies...the kids got the message...no movie...dad feels victorious....Smile...Debbie ;D
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Post by benshelpmeet on Sept 22, 2004 9:24:45 GMT -5
That's a good one, for those who have teens or even younger ones who watch movies or TV or Videos that are questionable. I think that was James Dobson, Ben told me the same story he heard on the radio. I think he said the father said he added ''poop'' and then got dog poop out of the yard and made the brownies with the poop mixed in. And how they smelled so good and everyone wanted some until he revieled that he had added just a little dog poop. His argument was that there was just a little poop. I say why even go to the Movies at all or for that matter why does one even need to have a TV or VCR? People did fine without them in the not so distant past why do we feel we can't do without them now? There a waste of ones time.
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Post by sherri on Oct 3, 2004 2:17:08 GMT -5
Darlene, i must agree with you there about tv/vcr/dvd/movies. And just a little ove a month ago i was renting movies with just a little "poop" in them. Well, dh and i talked about it, and we decided to fast from the tv for a month. We put up a sign of Phillipians 4:8 on it, and kept it there. Only last week did the thing get turned on. I was in the kitchen making dinner while dh was on the couch finishing up the movie he'd just rented (i guess he got bored while i drove to pick up my mom from the airport over an hour away). I was so adgitated by that noise that came out of that thing! If i wanted to hear that noise i could just put in a cassett of some someone vomiting! it just rubbed me the wrong way. i wated a single program with my mom, a cartoon. and that's all i've done, and all i care to do. I am sooooo done with tv. It is truely a waste of ones time. I mean seriously, sit down, do nothing but stare. Probably for an hour or a more a day. man, i kow people ho could truely use an extra hour in their day, and here we waste it doing nothing productive whatsoever. I'm battling depression right now cuz i threw out myback and i'm left on the couch most of my days doing... you guessed it... NOTHING. I'd embroider something if my arms didn't get so tired from holding it up where i can see. I can't imagine how i ever wanted to sit and do nothing before. My sweet daughter i pull out my Bible and we have story time. She picks a chapter, and i read, i pick another one (usually prov 31 over and over to help her re-momorize it), and we'll sit for a goodlong while learnign all about ruth, samual, saul, david...Jesus, Paul, reading titus, timothy... you name it, we're all over the Bible and she loves ot sit and cuddle next to me while i read. But only if its the Good News translation, the KJV loses her interst really quick. ANd Good News reads nicely, so we all take home a lot from the reading. Anyway, i'm rambling... God Bless! Sherri
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Post by debelynne on Oct 3, 2004 11:21:47 GMT -5
Sherri...I haven't missed tv either...more time to study ...more time for bible reading and spending time with all my children. ..more park time. even more time for house work and laundry I look online at www.pluggedinonline.com/ and look at their insight on movies...if they have any type of diety language at all I don't look any further for any other content...I feel so much closer to our Lord that I have chosen to honor Him in this way...Praise Our Lord...Debbie
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Post by blessedbygod on Jun 13, 2005 21:16:10 GMT -5
I know "Five Sponges" were written a while back, I am just now reading it. I really like what it says because it is so true and such a visual way to put it. I think I'm going to print it out and keep it on hand to read.
Love In Christ, Kim
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