Releasing Your Potential Expanded Edition by Myles Munroe

Author:Myles Munroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth
ISBN: 9780768498844
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2002-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Maintain the Right Environment

You are what you eat, and what’s eating you.

The story is told of a small boy who wanted to play with his pet fish. So he reached into the fish tank, caught the squirming fish and placed it on the floor beside him. Then he returned to playing with the cars and trucks that were scattered on the floor around him. As he played, he talked to the fish about everything he was doing until he became so engrossed in his toys that he forgot about the fish. Many minutes later, he remembered the fish and turned toward his pet. The fish no longer moved when he touched it. Frightened, the boy ran to his mother with the fish in his hand.

When his mother saw the fish, she quickly took it and put it in the fish tank. The boy watched tearfully as his pet floated on the top of the water. It was dead. When the mother asked her son what had happened to the fish, the boy innocently replied, “Why, we were playing together on the floor when I noticed that he wasn’t moving.”

Compassionately, the mother replied, “Honey, didn’t you know that the fish can’t live on the floor? God made fish to live in water.”

This story illustrates how much God’s creatures depend on the correct environment to live and grow. Even as fish need water to live, so we need the particular environment that God designed for men and women. Too often, however, we are unaware of the impact our environment has on our lives. We flop about like fish on the floor and wonder what’s wrong.

GOD’S CARE IN SETTING IDEAL ENVIRONMENTS

When God created the heavens and the earth, He was very careful to give all that He made an ideal environment. This care is evident, for example, in the earth’s placement three planets away from the sun.

The earth’s relationship to the sun allows the sun to draw water from the surface of the earth, which then freezes and becomes clouds. When the clouds become heavy, they release the water, which returns to earth as rain. Thus, God’s precise positioning of the earth and the sun both affords the earth protection from the sun’s radiation and provides the moisture earth’s plants and animals need to continue living.

BEWARE OF A WRONG ENVIRONMENT

Violation of environment always produces death. Vegetation that is planted in parched ground will eventually whither and decay. Wildlife that lives in drought areas will die from dehydration and starvation. Fish that live in polluted waters will become sickly and die. The Bible tells a story that illustrates this principle.

Violation of environment always produces death.

Jesus was called to the home of a ruler whose daughter had died. When He entered the house, Jesus found that the professional mourners had arrived and the funeral, with its cacophony of sounds, was in progress. After He had put the noisy crowd outside, Jesus entered the room where the girl lay. In the quietness, He took her by the hand and she got up.

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