Author: Salvation Emmanuel
Date of Creation: 7th July 2025
In a small, sunlit valley, there lived a glass bottle — dusty, scratched, and filled with murky water. His name was Clay, and he knew he was meant for something purer. He had heard stories of others who had been transformed — once filthy, now sparkling with clean, living water.
So Clay decided he would fix himself. He had to do it once and for all, before it was too late. His future depended on it. He did not want to be one of the other bottles that were sure to be discarded — forever trash.
“If only I can just empty all this filth out,” he thought.
He tried to tilt himself.
He tried to shake and strain.
He even begged the wind to help.
But nothing worked. The dirty water just swirled inside, taunting him.
“Why can’t I do it?” he cried in frustration. “I’m trying so hard!”
Then he noticed another bottle nearby. Redeemed was glowing, transparent, filled with water that shimmered in the sunlight.
“Redeemed!” he called out, “How did you do it? How did you get clean?”
Redeemed replied gently, “I didn’t clean myself. I just positioned myself beneath the Tap.”
Clay blinked. “But… weren’t you dirty before too?”
“Oh, yes. I was full of sludge. But the Tap — He is called El-Shaddai. When I came close, His living water poured into me. At first, the filth mixed and muddled, but as I stayed, the clean water kept flowing. Slowly, the old water was pushed out.”
Clay hesitated. “But I thought I had to be clean before I came into His space.”
“That’s the lie,” Redeemed said softly. “He never asked us to clean ourselves first. He only asked us to come — and to keep coming.”
So Clay rolled slowly, hesitantly, until he reached beneath the steady stream of the Tap. He trembled as the first drops entered. The dirt resisted. The cloudiness swirled.
But the water did not stop.
It filled.
It pushed.
It cleansed.
Hours passed. Then days. And finally, one morning, the sun shone upon Clay—and for the first time, light passed clearly through him.
He was whole. Not because he had emptied himself, but because El-Shaddai had filled him.
Sin, trauma, addictions, impurity and other vices, may be all we ever have known, but the reality is that grace to overcome is found ONLY in proximity to God — despite our filth. We cannot cleanse ourselves before coming to God, for we have nothing in ourselves that can achieve that. Purity is a result of coming to, and STAYING with Him — not a prerequisite.
So, Come. Stay. And allow His fullness displace your emptiness — until what you are is transformed into what He fashioned you to be.
Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty. —Zechariah 4:6
Sizzling Sunday: 13th July 2025
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