I once saw an illustration that comes to mind. A speaker I was listening too took a 1/2 full glass of water at the podium and started shaking it. He shook it hard enough for some water to start spilling out over the rim, splashing around, and making a mess.

As everyone watched, he asked, “Now why do you think there is water is spilling out of this glass?” Of course, someone said, “Because you’re shaking it.” “No”, he shot back, “It is because there is water IN the glass.”

Problems have a tendency to make a mess out of us, and sometimes upon others unless we recognize we’ve got something in our glass of self to spill. Wisdom can reveal what the mess is, and then the Truth of God’s word can set us free.

Thank you so much for reminding me of this today! I definitely needed it.