What’s Down In The Well, Comes Up In The Bucket

Scripture Texts: Luke 6:43-45

I love good old country wisdom, the kind you hear from grandpa sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch.  So when I read what the GLOW girls had been studying in their meetings this year and saw one of the lessons was, “What’s Down in the Well, Comes Up in the Bucket” I took to it like a duck on a June bug.  I thought you know, that dog will bark.  That will preach.

“What’s Down in the Well, Comes Up in the Bucket.”

There are several ways to say that.

What’s in the pot is what’ll boil over.

You can’t get sweet tea from a mud puddle.

If there’s a skunk in the cellar, it’s gonna stink upstairs.

If you prefer something a little more up to date with all the talk about tariffs and manufacturing:

We can only export what we already manufacture.  If you want to know what your factory is producing, just look at what’s being shipped out the door of your mouth.

Computer tech people like to say:  GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Or we could say it the way Jesus said it:

Luke 6:45 Out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.