Amy
Good Morning! Have you heard the hymn, “Fill my cup Lord”? This song includes the illustration of a cup to represent our lives that long to be filled with God’s spirit. I have grown up with this image in my mind, but recently I encountered another illustration that made more sense.
Instead of our spiritual lives being represented by a cup where we seem to contain God’s Spirit, consider the picture of a pipe, pipe open at both ends, where God’s Spirit can enter and fill us, yet can flow through and out of us to reach others.
A pipe represents the fact that God’s work in the world is always alive, moving, and fluid. We can never possess or contain it.
Instead of us being filled and God’s work being completed, the image of a pipe reminds us that God is continually flowing into us and out of us for the sake of others, if we are open.
God’s work is never done. So may your pipe be open to God’s Spirit today.
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