SUPERSATURATION & SIN: THEY HAVE MUCH IN COMMON
If you not a science geek, supersaturation is this really cool thing that sometimes happens.
First you need the right ingredients, and they need to be setup in a certain way. Here is a simple description in writing.
You have a bowl or beaker of fluid which is saturated with a certain ingredient (but it is still 100% liquid), and you slowly, drop by drop, add an ingredient to the bowl of liquid.
First one drip, then another, then another. All the while it seems like nothing happens, as if these little drops have no effect whatsoever.
Then, in a flash, after what seems like zillion drops were added with no effect—the liquid begins to turn quickly to solid!
Today we read:
29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. 30 The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
31 While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky,
Let’s break this down. Nebuchadnezzar had had a dream; a disturbing dream. He had received an even more disturbing interpretation. He had also received the antidote—repent.
So when I read, “At the end of twelve months…”, I hear the drop…drop…drop of sin adding daily to his life—seemingly with no effect.
Sin, working to saturate our lives, like a flash of lightening, breaks into our world with catastrophic impact.
God spoke, and all that Daniel had told him…
…was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen…
What sin is dripping into my life? How about yours?