We can become so familiar with things that we are not open to anything. Familiarity is comfortable, it can feel stable, secure and like a safe place. The challenge is we have not been called to be comfortable, we have been called to be conformed.

To be conformed is to be continually teachable, always pliable, willing to listen, learn and understand what we may not know. Conformed is like soft clay in the hands of the potter, comfortable is the clay pot that wants to sit on a shelf and shine with its glaze for all to see.

God keeps adding water to clay pot on the potters wheel in order to keep the clay soft, moldable and continually being transformed by the fingerprints of the potter.

Our love of things being done hinders our ability to remain teachable. We look forward to graduating, so we don’t have to go to school anymore, but life is an eternal education, we are to never stop learning, listening, exploring, asking questions, seeking to understand.

We are comfortable with the words of Jesus, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, but this morning the Holy Spirit said, “The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.” (Proverbs 18:4) The Lord went on to say, “I want more fountains of wisdom that turn into rushing streams, than I do deep waters.”

There is darkness in the deep waters, there is history and mystery in the deep waters. There is pain, memories, in the deep waters that is why what comes out of our mouths needs to be filtered. But wisdom is a fountain, it bubbles up, it recycles the waters and turns them into rushing streams.

Streams are waters that move, they are not stagnant. Rushing streams power cities, create adventure, and give drink to many living creatures. We have known the deep waters of our mouths, now the Lord wants the fountains of wisdom coming out of us, so rushing streams can pour out of our bellies. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org