Glass of Blue Water

Good morning,

I was listening to a sermon this morning and the minister was using a great visual.

He pretended he was coughing and asked for a glass of water. They brought out a table and set a glass of water on it. He drank some, then he pulled out a bottle of blue dye. He put a few drops in the glass and said, “The water is us. We start out clear and happy, then life drops things in us, hard things like sickness, loss of job, condemnation, guilt, abuse…” On and on the list goes.

Then he had them bring out a big pitcher of water and he said, “This is Jesus’ Word.” He started pouring the pitcher of water into the glass and let it spill out over the glass and onto the floor, diluting the blue water until it was all clear. He said, “That is what we need when life makes us blue. Lots of the Word to fill us up until we are so diluted with the Word that we know we will be healed, all will be well, we we’ll get through, we are forgiven, we can change.”

At Bible Study last week our friend Sue told us how she had received a concussion a few months ago and her memory was still affected really bad; she can’t remember things at all. Jessica said, “I will send you what I have underlined about things you can say to yourself when you have trouble remembering, instead of ‘I can’t remember.'” Sue said, ‘That is great, but I won’t remember you sent me something to read!!” I said, “How about if I write in black permanent marker on your hand so you can read it all day, all week.” She loved that idea. I wrote on the palm of her hand and after she read that she would remember that she had words from Jessica to read on her phone.

Jessica texted her these three things:

Ephesians 1:19-20: I’ve got the same power living on the inside of me that raised Jesus Christ from the dead, and I refuse to allow this sickness to stay in my body.

God forgive me for my doubt. Forgive me that what I see, taste, hear, smell and feel is more real to me than You are. Forgive me that I’m more responsive to fear than I am to Your Word.

You have to get to a place where you say, “I don’t feel healed, but Your Word says it and I believe it.” Then your body will say, “You’ve got pain.” You’ll answer, “I don’t care what I feel. I don’t care what it looks like. I don’t care what somebody says. This is what God’s Word says, and I believe it.”

Then I wrote in permanent marker on the palm of her hand:

I have the mind of Christ

My memory is healed

Praise Jesus

Dilute what is blue in your glass with the clear, fresh, loving, healing, all powerful, forgiving, guilt-free water that is in His Word.

Love you, Teri