From the well …

J.C. Watts quotes his grandmother as saying, “What’s in the well comes up in the bucket.”

How true that is!

But how we too often like to pretend it isn’t. Too often we like to think we can draw from fouled sources and still have something good for us.

Can’t do it.

Too often we like to think we can play around the fringes, and still come up with something pure.

Can’t do it.

We do this in all aspects of life. We think we don’t have to apply ourselves in our professions, and still get the promotions and perks. We think we don’t have to study but should still pass. We think we can be selfish in a relationship, yet still be trusted and have intimacy. And we think we can have elements of sin in our lives, and still have God’s blessing.

Can’t do it, can’t do it, can’t do it, cannot do it!

Jesus puts it this way in Luke 6:43-45, “A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. What you say flows from what is in your heart.”

What’s in the well comes up in the bucket.

What source are you drawing from?

Scotty