A professor known for his creative teaching methods was illustrating the properties of matter.
He filled a small-mouth jar with rocks and asked if it was full. His students agreed that he could fit in no more rocks, so it must be.
Then he added pebbles, which filtered in among the rocks. The students agreed that was certainly full then.
Last, out came a bag of sand, and the professor poured it in and asked, “Is the jar full now?”
The professor had one last lesson to teach with his jar of rocks and sand. He turned it upside down and shook it. The rocks were caught by the small opening, but the pebbles and sand fell to the tabletop. Yet, he pointed out, the jar was still full of rocks.
Isaiah 43:18-19 says:
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”
Here’s our takeaway. The rocks are the important things in our lives. The pebbles and sand, they are the bad things that have taken up residence in the small spaces of our days.
God wants us to shake them off. The good things are still there, perhaps hidden or clogged by the small stuff. We must let the bad things fall away.
How? We place our trust in God, and he will make a way. It’s called salvation and it comes through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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