Day 19: Believe From The Inside Out
- Joni
- May 19
- 2 min read
Let's go back to school.
WAY BACK.
"I'm a little tea pot, short and stout.
Here is my handle, here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up, I just shout.
Tip me over and pour me out" (Sanders/Kelley).
Remember this little song?
Well, for some reason this song popped in my mind
after I read the following verse~
"He who BELIEVES in ME [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on ME],
as the Scripture has said,
‘From his INNERMOST BEING
WILL FLOW CONTINUALLY RIVERS OF LIVING WATER'"
(John 7:38).
So how do the words,
"From his INNERMOST BEING
WILL FLOW CONTINUALLY RIVERS OF LIVING WATER",
make me think about a little teapot?
It is quite obvious.
What goes IN will come OUT.
If you fill a tea pot with water,
you BELIEVE that the water will become hot water,
so after it gets all steamed up
hot water will poured out.
But what if you filled a teapot with mud?
Hmm.
What is IN will come OUT.
What is in your teapot?
What if it is filled with
DOUBT, FEAR, HOPELESSNESS, or __________,
what will be poured out when you get all steamed up?
Hmm.
What goes IN will come OUT.
What you BELIEVE on the INSIDE,
is what will FLOW from you.
Now this isn't rocket science,
but sometimes it appears to be,
when BELIEVING turns to UNBELIEF,
because I complicate the simplicity of
JESUS' WORDS
when HE INVITES me TO BELIEVE
and I choose to DOUBT HIS WORDS.
What does BELIEVE mean?
TO ADHERE TO.
TO TRUST IN.
TO RELY ON.
Sounds quite simple.
Until it is not,
when you
ADHERE TO
&
TRUST IN
&
RELY ON
anything or anyone else than
JESUS.
What are you ADHERING TO, TRUSTING IN, and RELYING ON?
Is it a habit, a circumstance, the past, a feeling, a hurt, a fear, or even the weather?
For whatever you are BELIEVING IN,
will determine what will
flow from you.
"He who BELIEVES in ME [who adheres to, trusts in, and relies on ME],
'from his INNERMOST BEING
WILL FLOW CONTINUALLY RIVERS OF LIVING WATER' ".
A teapot that is filled with JESUS
will FLOW CONTINUALLY RIVES OF LIVING WATER~
"LOVE,
JOY,
PEACE,
PATIENCE,
KINDNESS,
GOODNESS,
FAITHFULNESS,
GENTLENESS
and
SELF-CONTROL"
(Galatians 5:22-23).
What is in your TEAPOT?
Or should I ask,
WHO is in your TEAPOT?
"I, ______________, (put your name)
BELIEVE YOU"
(listen to the song below)
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