and the One who walks with me on it.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Slow Moving Shampoo



       So I’ve had a particularly annoying problem lately.  When I was in the tub washing my hair, the shampoo would come out unusually slow.  I thought it was due to the very cold weather we’ve been having coupled with the fact of the shampoo bottle being on the un-insulated ‘outside’ wall.  Frustrated, after a week of this, I took time to look at the bottle and noticed it was plugged up with hardened shampoo leaving the opening far smaller than it was intended to be.

       It is still weird to think of this happening because the type of shampoo I use is clear and has nothing that sticks to the hair, so how would it possibly solidify enough at the top of the bottle to plug it up?  But sure enough it had closed up the opening to less than half of the size thus slowing down the outflow dramatically. 

       Just like our spiritual lives when we suddenly feel plugged up as if the Spirit isn’t flowing through us or we can’t seem to hear the Lord well anymore.  We think about doing this or that, but we don’t often think about really, deeply looking at the issue to find the problem.  We’re a quick fix society, oil change in 10 mins., band aid over it, mask the problem, but we don’t often go for the ‘get at the root of it’ solution… it just takes too long.  Really though, it just prolongs the problem.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to Your testimonies. Ps. 119:59
And now so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways; you have sown much and bring in little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you dress, but no one is warm; and he who hires out himself hires himself for a bag full of holes. Hg. 1:5,6


     So what is it that is plugging up our flow with the Lord?  Is it putting our own pleasures first- worldliness, ambition, inability to be still and listen, too many of our own tasks; perhaps we still have God in a box instead of completely surrendering to Him, His will and His ways.  Maybe we are being childish and doing it out of spite.  No matter the reason.  Take a close look and figure out what the problem is.  Then do something about it.  Don’t just leave it all gummed up, knock out that blockage!

with practical action if possible.

with prayer for sure.