Sucking Blessings Through A Straw

You may feel like the Peanuts cartoon in which Lucy says to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world!" Charlie says, "But I thought you had inner peace." Lucy replies, "I do have inner peace. But I’m still obnoxious on the outside."

God’s wisdom will settle your mind and give your heart peace. If envy and strife follow on your heels like a bloodhound, maybe its time to let go of bitterness and let God’s peace begin to rule in you.

When you think like God thinks and you understand what the Holy Ghost is revealing to you, then your life will reflect the very character of God and life will be greater than It’s ever been.

James 3:18, "And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."

Those who are filled with bitterness, envy and strife are trying to receive from God but something is choking off the supply line and destroying the line of communication. We cannot have these things operating in our lives and claim to be Christians for they are the product of hell and light and darkness cannot mix.

The evil in that heart keeps God’s best from getting through to us. Like lemon juice that causes your lips to pucker, a sour spirit draws your heart and closes your mind. It’s like trying to drink in the blessings of God through a bent straw. Nothing much can get through.

Let’s open that channel wide and allow the Holy Ghost to move in us. Learn to forgive and forget. Don’t allow bitterness to dwell in you.

If you make peace with God and man, then your life will be one of complete peace and everywhere you go you will be the instrument of peace for other people too.

In the Bible we are told the story of how God came to Solomon and told him that he would give him anything he desired. He could have riches, power, prestige, or anything he wanted. Solomon’s request was the he be given wisdom to rule over God’s people.

Solomon at the height of his spiritual power wrote in Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Later on when Solomon began to allow his spiritual convictions to crumble and to compromise with the ways of the world, his wisdom wasn’t so profound anymore.

Nearing the end of this days, Solomon ceased to fear God and began to simply depended on his own human wisdom. He was no longer the world’s wisest man, he became the world’s most knowledgeable fool.

Are you trying to drink in God’s blessing through a straw, allowing envy, strife and bitterness to stay in your heart and choke your ability to receive the things of the Spirit? Use the wisdom that God gives and let it go, root it out, lest it destroys you in the end.