Are you in a heated situation, and you are at your boiling point?
The lesson I learned from boiling water and pinto beans…
When boiling water after a long period, there is a white film that rises to surface, after the water has reached a degree of boiling. I have also noticed while cooking pinto beans; that once you put the beans into the water particles of beans floats to the top.
In looking at the similarity of what takes place when you boil water and pinto beans in contrast to the life of a believer. The boiling water and beans conveyed a spiritual truth.
God, places us into boiling situations to deal with the film or particles that arise. He does this with the intention of confronting areas in our lives, that will other wise go unnoticed and unchecked.
Unless the heat was on! So think it not strange that you have found yourself in a heated situation. Now you need to ask the question. What does God desire me to confront and deal with in my life?
Become aware of the film of: a bad attitude, bitterness, quarrelsome or maybe particles of: worry, fear, disbelief or doubt these are just to name a few. When you are boiling it causes all the impurities to surface to a visible level to be dealt with.
When it floats to the top, do not ignore it. They arose for the very purpose for you to take action in confronting, dealing and eliminating them. If they continue to go unchecked, then they will boil over to other areas of your life and the clean up will be greater than if you would have addressed it when they started to arise.
Now that I think about it MTV, use to air a show titled Boiling Point. The theme of the show was that they send a decoy out, and this person would go up to random people and aggravate them for a period of time, if the person respond negatively, before the allotted time expire then they are disqualified, but the person who successfully endure the antics of the agitator would be rewarded with a $100.00.
In either situation win or lose the decoy wait until the time lapsed to disclose to his target that he/ she is from MTV’s show Boiling Point. That show tells a lot about a person. What was in them; was made apparent from what did or did not come out of their mouth.
Rather it was anger, frustration or patience, it was made known. Like the show…
Decoys enter our life in the form of situations; trials and sometimes-even people to assist us in the areas that God desires to grow us in.
When you reach your boiling point be aware that what’s in you will definitely come out and if it’s negative then that is the very thing God wants you to confront.
Like the show you do not know the purpose of the testing until it’s over. Pressure always has a tendency of exposing, the truth.
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