Empty Your Resentment Bucket

Empty Your Resentment Bucket

Having a tough day?
A tough week?
Perhaps a tough month?

Is your one more "one more" bucket empty? It happens. Always when your resentment bucket fills, your forgiveness bucket empties. You need just one more... forgiveness. One more "one more"... but there are none to be found.

They come. Needing. Wanting. Asking,... "one more" of you.

They never offer to give back. They take, take, take... One more. One more. One more. Slowly your "one more" bucket empties. No, here you go refills. 

No... "I want you to have this replenishers" coming by your bucket today for you. No siree. Only the joy stealers, the bottom dwellers and the needy Neelys coming by your bucket of help. Sucking it dry. Taking your "one more" from your bucket.

If only... Just one more. If you only had one more... "one more" to give. Not today. Ain't going to happen. Your one more bucket is empty. You look in your bucket, only to see the empty bottom of the bucket staring back at you.

You break down. The tears flow. The desperation fills your heart. Now is the time you feel it in your heart. No where to turn, Nowhere to go, no more "one more" to save you today. Not in your "one more" bucket.

Look over there. Those other buckets are full. The resentment bucket? Overflowing.
How did that happen?
Where did all of that come from?
Who filled those worthless buckets?

Kick your resentment bucket. 
All the way over. 
Let those horrible feelings of bitterness and frustration spill out on the ground.

Go ahead.
Kick it!
Empty that pail of hate. Your miniature dumpster full of bad feelings. 
Today is the day to take out your resentment.

Give it all to God.  
He's the maker of the deepest seas. He will take your pain, your hurt, your stored up feelings of resentment. HE has a place for them in the ocean of despair. It's bottomless. Deeper than space. Bigger than the universe.
Send those ugly feelings where they belong.
Gone.
Long gone.
Forgotten.
Forever!

God is waiting for you. HE's got a heaven full of "one mores" for your empty bucket. Ask. He will refill your "one more" bucket for you. Over flow your bucket with hope, forgiveness and love.

Then the fun begins. HE takes your empty heart and fills it with the greatest love in the universe.
HIS!
An unlimited resource of hope.
God is not limited by the sides of a metal pail. HIS buckets know no boundaries. HIS rubber hose flows non-stop. Just ask, HE will point that endless supply toward your bucket.

What once held black emptiness of Hate, now holds the bright white of joy. Your "one more" bucket...
Overflowing.
…..2008 Tim Levin (www.timsinspiration.com) by way of “Christian Voices’ (christianvoices@att.net)