"A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart,
and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart.
For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of..."
-Luke 6:45, NIV
Sometimes we don't really know someone or ourselves into we're put
into a position that "squeezes" us.
Stress, anger, sick, children, etc...
What we absorb is what we put out. It reaffirms the fact that what we watch, participate, or associate with becomes a part of us, and that eventually it will come out in our actions or words. "Watch what you say- kids are around." It's not just children. We as adults are even more guilty of our actions because we purposely put ourselves into that environment. We absorb the language of coworkers, we absorb how we dress by what we watch or who we're with, and we absorb how to treat people by those we are around. Then, when we're stressed or frustrated or even get into a fight the language that we've been absorbing comes out because we are squeezed. The treatment of family in stressed situations comes out because of how we treat people at work or with friends. What we wear or say come out from what we watch or listen to.
Everybody is a sponge! We absorb and hold on to everything. Then, we eventually expel it. It's human. What matters is what we are absorbing and expelling!! As Christians we are to absorb Christ and expel His love and how we are transformed by that!
Are you a dirty sponge?
*I read this wonderful little idea from Mary Southerland (Girlfriends in God) in a daily email I get, but these are my words/view on it.*
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