Lift the lid

It was no good, I simply had to have a cappuccino!

The trouble was that I was running out of time and needed

to leave the house promptly. I quickly switched on the kettle,

grabbed my travel cup, and prepared to leave. I could indulge

in my cappuccino en route.

Before leaving, the travel cup needed a rinse, so I put the lid on and swilled it around with boiling hot water before pouring in my hot drink.                                - Job done!     Until I tried to unscrew the lid, that is!

What was so easy to loosen before adding hot water became impossible afterwards! The simple physics of hot air expanding and contracting caused a vacuum seal, making the lid clamp firmly shut. I tightened my grip like a vice, squeezed, pulled, wrapped the lid in a towel, but nothing, simply nothing, would open my travel cup, it was stuck fast.

Eventually I gave up, and chose a different, compliant vessel, then dashed out the door clutching my steaming cappuccino in hand.

He is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name. Acts 9:15

You, like St Paul, are chosen by God to be a worthy vessel for his service, fit for purpose and equipped by his Spirit, but sometimes, like the travel mug, we find that when the heat is on, we become unyielding or obstinate vessels, unwilling to open up and respond to God’s call, and stubbornly closed to his indwelling presence. This leaves us empty and unfulfilled.   Are you tightly closed, or open and yielding to your heavenly Father’s loving call, and compassionate counsel? Today why not lift the lid?                                                                                                                                                                                 

With Love,       Rev Gill x

Here am I, send me. Isaiah 6:8