In our flash-freeze, flash-cook, and flash-relationship world, we have forgotten the importance of time spent in water.
Take the good old nut. They come well-prepared for survival with toxic substances and nutritional inhibitors. Consume unprocessed nuts in excess, and different enzyme inhibitors, tannins, and acids strain our digestive system, causing our gut to be irritated, often in a most painful way.
If we soak the nuts (and many seeds), most of the bad stuff comes out. It’s part of God’s plan, to keep the seed dormant until there is plentiful rainfall. In nature, adequate rain soaks the nuts and allows them to germinate. If we do this artificially, we bring the nut to digestible goodness.
When we soak in God, the same process takes place in us.
Romans 3:23 tells us:
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Our sin is a toxic substance to God. We are indigestible to him when we are filled with the acids of sin. We must cleanse them away.
1 John 1:9 says:
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Our confession is the start of the soaking process. We are letting the power of God loosen the poisons so they can be removed from our lives.
Revelation 7:14 reveals the process:
“These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
Our sins have stained us, and it is when we are covered fully with the Father that the inhibitors and tannins can be flushed away.
2 Timothy 3:16 tells how we can soak ourselves in God daily:
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
We are the bag of dried beans, hard and wizen, unable to be consumed by the needy of this world. However, when we soak ourselves in the Word, we begin to swell with Christ’s goodness, and soon we will become a tasty treat, filled with God’s love, and ready to be served up for him.
The world will want to dine on us when we are thoroughly soaked in God.
The more time we spend in the Word and in prayer, the more flavorful we will be to the needy around us.
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