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Daily Devotional
7/28 - Chris Blake
By: Pacific Press Author
Once for a teaching lesson I filled a large vat with five gallons of water while energetic seventh- and eighth-graders clustered around me. "This water," I announced, "is our trust in God. Five gallons of faith." I held up a bottle of cooking oil. "This oil represents our worry."
I poured in only one cup of oil. "Now, Eric" - I chose smiling Eric, always ready for anything - "I want you to mix this little worry into our large faith so that the worry disappears." Happy to oblige, Eric churned the water to a froth. We waited a half minute for the water to stop spinning.
At first the oil couldn't be seen, but as the water stilled, six oil globules congealed on top. Then, amazingly, the globules flattened, moved toward each other, connected, and formed an oily film. In the end, the one cup of worry covered five gallons of faith. Worry and trust cannot coexist, just as oil and water don't mix.
As we're stilled in bed after a spinning day, worries congeal, expand, and cover our peace of mind. We must trust God purely, entirely, giving our worries to Him. It's said that if a problem is not large enough to be handled with prayer, it's not big enough to worry about. Particularly, we pray, God, take these worries of mine and bury them under Your love. I do not fear tomorrow, for I know You are already there.
From Searching For A God To Love by Chris Blake, p 82
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