Those nasty leaks...

Isaiah 55:8-9
"My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Even in my best days anger and hate manage to seep out of my flesh.

Have you ever been to the Arizona Memorial in Honolulu? More than 60 years after its demise at the bottom of Pearl Harbor you can see the oil seeping from the sunken ship. Tiny drops make their way to the surface every few minutes. Its a totally random event yet a constant phenomenon.

That's how my ways are, they are certainly not His ways. His ways are all focused on heaven, 100% good and my ways are like the nasty oil that keeps oozing up hour after hour, year after year. Just when you thought you saw the last drop, here comes another.

So what's my point in all this? We are a society that fancies itself in self help. We think we can clean up our act yet the goop seeps from us despite our best efforts. Then we take to identifying other people's leaks yet ignore our own leaks?

God's ways are not our ways. If we let God be the one that directs our ways then we have a chance to actually be able to love one another without the nasty leaks that often hamper our relationships.