Trading Spiritual Exhaustion for True Abiding

If you have ever had to clean up after a big dinner party, you know there are two ways to deal with a Hot dish that has burnt cheese onto the sides.

The first way is sheer brute force. You grab a metal scrubber, you roll up your sleeves, and you scrape with everything you’ve got. You sweat, your muscles ache, and you might even scratch the dish, but you force it clean.

But there is a second, much better way. You fill that dirty dish with warm, soapy water, slide it into the sink, and you just walk away. You let it soak. And while it sits in the soak, the warm water does all the hard work. When you come back later, the burnt cheese wipes away effortlessly.

When it comes to your relationship with God, are you scraping... or are you soaking?