Lately my cry has been Psalm 51:10 - Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. It seems like I am encountering situations that are making my fleshly side sit up at attention. I'm recognizing my reactions and responses, and I know that God is not pleased. Shoot, I'm not pleased!
I was in prayer on yesterday asking God to cleanse my heart and make me more like Him. I realized that God was allowing these circumstances to come to show me the places where I still need work and deliverance.
I was just thanking God for my progress and celebrating my spiritual growth, and God shifted me back into the repair lane. He showed me that I wasn't as together as I thought I was.
I can only be grateful. My God loves me so much that He wants me to be the best I can be! He cares that I embody His love fully, and that I live my life as a total witness to what His transforming power can do.
Don't lose heart when God allows you to go through His purifying fire. Yes, it is painful to see our faults. It is difficult to change into the image of Christ. Our flesh doesn't want to follow God's ways, and it chafes under His pruning hand.
However, there is joy in knowing that we are living in a way that pleases the Father! There is peace when we know that our every action brings a smile to His face! It also boots our witness when we can share honestly how the Word has changed us and transformed us into new creatures.
Stay in the fire! Don't give in. You're being made into His image.
Verse of the Day: But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. Isaiah 64:8
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