RUST...
This morning while doing up the dishes, I found my favorite tongs in the bottom of the sink. Now, to some that might be perfectly normal and you are thinking what is the big deal...well, this particular pair of tongs is pron to RUST....yes....RUST! I should probably just get rid of them, but I just can't seem to part with them. They have been with me for 25 yrs now, through many of lifes changes, and they have traveled the world with me on all our journeys, from Brasil, to Thailand and then back again to the USA.So, back to the rust on the tongs....I am able to clean them, and if I keep them dry, the rust is kept at bay...but this particular day, they were not kept dry and cleaned and kept in the right place, and when I picked them up from the bottom of the sink, I noticed that they not only rusted over night, but they contaminated one of my good knives that was laying under them. The rust spread to a perfectly good item. NOW, I not only have a very irritating pair of tongs that rust...but that rust spread to another.
I am reminded by God in the stillness of my kitchen sink that our lives can be like that rust. We can be useful, yet have a speck of rust in us, that if kept in it proper place, cleaned often, dried and put away, it will stay at bay and we can enjoy life with a good purpose. YET, if that rust is not taken care of, even in the smallest of things, we can contaminate those around us with it. Even in the simplest of things, like lack of joy, to the big things like unthankfulness, unforgivness and bitterness. We can spread the negative in us to affect others.
So, I ask myself...Am I spreading good things around, or am I like that speck of rust that will ruin and affect those around me with negativity and ruin a good thing for no reason?
