Naturally!

When you turn on the faucet in your kitchen, what do you expect to get? Do you expect milk? How about Coke? Salt water? Fresh water? What would happen if you got both saltwater and fresh water out of the same faucet? It wouldn’t be fresh would it? That’s not the way it works. That wouldn’t be natural. That’s not what you should expect. You expect to get good, refreshing, clean water out of that faucet. You don’t expect one thing one moment and something else the next.

Now, suppose your life and my life were a faucet. What should be expected when it is turned on?

Regarding the tongue James wrote:
“(9) With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. (10) From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, THESE THINGS OUGHT NOT TO BE SO. (11) DOES A SPRING POUR FORTH FROM THE SAME OPENING BOTH FRESH AND SALT WATER? (12) Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.” ( James 3:9-12 ESV)

As unnatural as it would be to have both from the same spring we should see how unnatural it ought to be for both praising and cursing to spring from the same mouth. Sometimes it seems that mankind is the most inconsistent part of God’s Creation. Let us strive to be consistent in the nature God created us to possess.

Have a great day LIVING CONSISTENT WITH GOD’S NATURE!
Carl

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[This focus was originally sent 08/09/1998 (Edited some with passage changed to ESV)]

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