Marbles
Do you have God in your life? Or do you have your life in God? In the first instance, God is a part of your life like a marble added to a jar. It's only a part of you, a part of the whole, a part that you get out and use occasionally like on Sundays or when you want something. In the second instance, your life is in God. In this way, your life is the marble and God is the jar. He's not part of you, you are part of Him. You are surrounded, suspended, held by Him. Every step you take, every breath you breathe is in Him. This isn't an occasional thing, this isn't for just Sunday morning. This is feeding the homeless in visiting prisons. This is helping your neighbor understand who Jesus Christ is. This is caring and loving and doing. It's going to sleep praising God, and waking up praising God Is God the marble in your jar or are you the marble in His?
John Barr