Clogged by Sand

 
How is your Wednesday going? It's been a cool cloudy day here. Gayla is out and about with her mom and the kids have been goofing this morning.

What do sand and sin have in common, well read on and find out. And again thanks for stopping by.

 

 A number of years ago the mouth of the Mississippi River became so clogged that no vessels could pass through the channel. Much anxiety was felt, for the farmers along its banks depended upon the river for the transportation of their products.

There were no great overhanging rocks to fall into the stream and block the way of the vessels. No volcanic upheaval had changed its bed. The trouble was simply the deposit of sediment—washings from the muddy banks and bottom of the river, so fine that a filter would hardly free the water from its impurity. And yet these tiny specks, massed together, hindered the great river's flow to the ocean; and for a time threatened the industries of the south-western States.

It does not need some great sin to block the channel of blessing. Small sins will block the stream. Human ingenuity at last found a way to keep the Mississippi channel open; but only God's power can free your heart from sin.

- Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations.