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As soon as I got home this morning (after school runs). I picked up my phone to do something (can’t even remember what I wanted to do anymore). However, a news jumped at me…not so good news, it is confirming our ‘worst fear’ right in few kilometres away from my location.
…my heart started skipping
I felt like going back to school to pick my children
I felt like staying indoor with them for as long as I can
I felt like travelling out of the state but where to?
I felt like announcing the news to family and friends, at least it is a way of sensitisation but in a way I will pass on my fear.
Then I heard this small still voice…”Fear Not’
Hmmmmm…I became calm a bit nevertheless I started thinking strategically…
Then I heard again, “He that keeps Israel neither sleep nor slumber”
This time I dusted the fear completely.
I picked up my note and started writing, as I was, I remembered an article I read during the week, permit me to share with you:
You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?
“Because someone bumped into me!!!”
Wrong answer.
You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.
Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.
*Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.*
Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It’s easy to fake it, until you get rattled.
*So we have to ask ourselves… “what’s in my cup?”*
When life gets tough, what spills over?
Joy, gratefulness, peace and humility?
Anger, bitterness, harsh words and reactions?
Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.
Today let’s work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation; and kindness, gentleness and love for others.”
Fill your cup with His word because it is only in His Word that your world can be at rest. You can’t afford not to declare scriptures into the lives of your children. That is the most valid assurance anywhere and anytime.
