Lessons from the Teapot

Yesterday we had some friends over for a special girls gathering. We enjoyed having tea, watched Anne of Green Gables, and shared in dinner and fellowship.

Which one would you like to be – a teapot or a teacup? Mom shared some wonderful spiritual analogies relating to tea and our lives:
The teapot holds the tea; like the teapot, we too must be filled with good things that are pleasing in the Lord’s sight. Ephesians 3:19 – That you may really come to know [practically, and through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge; that you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of God and may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!
What is filling you? Do you have a hunger and thirst for God? We have to keep being filled or we will run dry. We’re to overflow with blessings to others and not be dry or stagnant. What is on the inside, JESUS, should flow out to bless, comfort, strengthen and encourage others. It comes with moment by moment dependence and by yielding to Christ and His Spirit.

On the other hand, a teacup only holds what is put into it – there is no outlet. We shouldn’t seek to be energy-takers, but energy-givers!
Fill my cup, Lord- I lift it up, Lord! Come and quench this thirsting of my soul; Bread of heaven, feed me till I want no more- Fill my cup, fill it up and make me whole!
-R. Blanchard

smiles after a sweet afternoon and evening shared together

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