“It’s hard to escape the voices that let us know we are nothing but water…”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus, (2014-02-25) from his book, The Artisan Soul: Crafting Your Life into a Work of Art (p. 178). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

I don’t know what voices in your life seem to control who you believe you are.  In so many people there is a chain reaction of families who don’t believe in the potential of each other but have the desire to protect them from too high expectation.  To some you are just water, just common water and you don’t need to worry, you just aren’t going to amount to much of anything.

And I wonder if that is why the first miracle that John writes about Jesus is of His being at Wedding and of their running out of wine and His mother asking Him to do something about it?  She know who He was. So He took some common water and turned it into wine.  He took nothing but water and solved the problem.

That is what happens when something common is placed in the hands of a master.  Erwin says, “It’s hard to escape the voices that let us know we are nothing but water…” and then continues, “…yet they become a point of celebration when we realize that God has special expertise in using common materials.”

Understand that, believe that and celebrate that fact “that God has special expertise in using common materials.”  You see in the right hands being nothing but water has unbelievable potential.  Remember, nothing is common to Him.  He made the best wine out of common water.  And He will do something unbelievable through you.

So whose voice are you going to listen to?