Keep the Outlet Clear

Friday. Acts 20: 22-24. 32-35.

An outlet is as necessary as an inlet, and it must be in proportion to the inlet. When the outlet clogs, the inlet clogs too, and the waters get foul and gather bad scum. No outlet means a dead sea. Some lives are the coastline of a dead sea: the streams all flow in; the outlet’s clogged; the waters can’t nourish life. Love gives. That’s its life. God gives. That’s his life. Let’s be like him. Clear away what stops the outflow.