Fizz it up!
The other day I was making a drink with our SodaStream machine. If you haven't had the pleasure of one of these, you basically take water and put it under the machine and pump out some gas and voila! You have a carbonated drink. When you've fizzed the water you can add whatever flavouring you desire to it. However, on occasions, I have tired to add the flavour without concentrating on the task in hand and suddenly I am faced with a volcanic eruption rivalling Mount Etna and a second water baptism! Sometimes we can be like that in our spiritual walk. We can receive God's Word with joy and it bubbles up and fizzes over, but as quickly as it came, it's gone again and we're left with that 'flat' feeling and the sense that something isn't quite what it should be. Jesus said this: Mark 4:16-17 (KJV) And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladn...