setup: [E-Mail Ministry] What's In Your Sponge

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WHAT'S IN YOUR SPONGE?

There are 5 sponges laying on your kitchen counter top. 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 in your home,
but you can't tell by looking...they all look the same....so what do you do?

You squeeze each sponge to see what comes out. As you squeeze the first
sponge, you see that cola comes out, and so 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 to clean the bathroom.

Next, in the third sponge, you find motor oil -- hubby was cleaning the
garage!

In the fourth sponge, baby powder puffs out when it is squeezed -- yep the
baby's nursery was done with that one!

And finally, in the last one, 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 - and they
all look the same until they're squeezed.

Christians are the same way. As life squeezes us, different things come out
- anger from one, a need for revenge from another, tears from one, remorse
from yet another - also 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 (and it WILL), Jesus, and Jesus ALONE will shine forth from you!

Have a blessed, squeaky clean day!

-- Author Unknown

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