What has been like "water from the well of Bethlehem" to you recently-- love, friendship, or maybe some spiritual blessing (2 Samuel 23:16)? Have you taken whatever it may be, even at the risk of damaging your own soul, simply to satisfy yourself? If you have, then you cannot pour it out "to the Lord." You can never set apart for God something that you desire for yourself to achieve your own satisfaction. If you try to satisfy yourself with a blessing from God, it will corrupt you. You must sacrifice it, pouring it out to God-- something that your common sense says is an absurd waste.
...until I pour these things out to God, they actually endanger those I love, as well as myself, because they will be turned into lust.
If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything "to the Lord," other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.
- excerpts from My Utmost for His Highest
How?
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