Years ago, I built a fountain for my backyard birds. The fountain looks plain enough, but has a complicated concrete catch basin with a pump and automatic fill system … when it works. I have installed three different filling devices over the past 20 years, and all of them have failed after a couple of years. So now, I simply turn on the supply line when the fountain goes dry. But the filler tube is only 1/8” tubing, and it takes a long time to fill. Often I forget to turn it off, and I only notice when it has been running over for several hours. Oops! Last Sunday, Pastor Jamie preached on prayer and mentioned Philippians 1:9&10, “And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.” That word “abound” explains how we should love. Our love for God and for one another should be “full and running over” like my fountain. Hey, are you stingy with your love? Or does your love abound: run over past overfill? Think about it.
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