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How to empty an ocean?
I woke up this morning with this strange question heavy on my mind. It felt so awkward and I wondered why a question as ‘vague’ as how to empty an ocean would possibly occupy my mind.
While I kept at my daily activities and waited for a clarification of what the question meant, the response was that I will get my requests when I begin to write on it.
I felt like Abraham whom God asked to leave his father’s land for another land He will show him. Abraham embarked on a journey without a destination in mind. How was I supposed to write on a topic without understanding the theme…it felt strange.
However I started to write and as I did, tiny sparks of clarity came from where the question came from until I fully grasped what it meant.
How to empty an ocean?.Stay on track with me as I unravel the meaning…and probably the answer to the question.
I was blessed and I am sure you will too.
While I wrote, my mind travelled to about 7 years ago. It was on a Monday Bible study in my home church where my pastor gave an allegory of how the Word of God dominates our lives. He likened our lives to be a drum filled with unpleasant waters and the Word of God as a weight that can displace the water. By our continuous introduction of the Word, the water finally gets displaced and the Word of God fully replaces it.That was years ago and that explanation remained stuck with me.
To me, that was such a spiritual application of Archimedes’ principle!
When we introduce the weight of the Word, it displaces the weight of water that’s equal to the weight introduced.
No matter how powerful God’s word is, if we don’t interact with it long enough for the power to fully work in us, we will not experience the full victory it brings.
A stone will not displace the volume a mountain will displace likewise will a shabby study of the word not give us the victory that comes with cumulated hours of consistent Bible study.
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Most of us are fighting habits that has garnered sophisticated weapons of war, with the knife in a cutlery set and are wondering why it takes time for us to walk fully in the victory God has promised.
It is a no brainer that we will keep losing the battle until we scale up our weapon.
The word of God is truly a two edged sword but your level of interaction with the word determines the size of the sword in your hands.
The sight of an ocean will no doubt send the signal of how impossible it is to displace it; So is the sight of long years of entrenched wrong habits whose roots have gone deeper than the tap roots of a hundred year old Iroko tee.
The Children of Israel must have doubted too but it didn’t last, because right before their eyes, the ocean parted ways.
If God can part the ocean in the Bible, He can also displace the ocean of every strange habit by our constant interaction with His word.
No matter how powerful God’s word is, if we don’t interact with it long enough for the power to fully work in us, we will not experience the full victory it brings.
This is a call to as many who have given up on studying the Word of God because you think you can barely see its impact in your life. The Word is actually working but the problem is that you are not interacting with it long enough for it to bring out the fruits God desire in you. You have been throwing stones and getting a tantamount result.
However, there is still hope.
Consistency in introducing the weight of the word will displace the waters of besetting sins or compromise.You lose the taste for the world when you have tasted God’s words so much that it has numbed your taste buds to worldly affections.
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Now. How do we empty the ocean of wrong choices or decisions? It is by displacing it with daily adherence to the weight of God’s instructions.
Trust God for Grace to invest more time in his word so that the weight of his Glory will displace everything that is not his will in your life.
Just like how God fulfilled his Promise to Abraham. He fulfilled his Promise to me. I got an answer!
Now, I know and I’m reminded all over again that God’s word can achieve the impossible. Impossible as in emptying an ocean.
So dear friend, keep at it. Keep studying the word and if you are getting peanut results, intensify your efforts.
Trust God for Grace to invest more time in his word so that the weight of his Glory will displace everything that is not his will in your life.
I pray God helps us not to get tired of or distracted from interacting with His precious Word, which is capable of making our lives pleasing to God and a blessing to fellow men.
Amen.