No one wants to drink water they feel is contaminated. Everyone wants the water they drink to be purified. Even though we know that the water we get for pennies out of the tap is 'safe' to drink, we would rather pay dollars for the water that we know has gone through extra purification processes. Because of our desires, the bottled water business is booming.
In the same way, God desires our spirits to be purified as well. After we turn to Him, He wants us to go through the processes that will take away the sinful habits and mindsets and turn us into purified spirits that reflect the God that we have accepted.
In the book of Revelation, God spoke to the Laodiceans about how their behavior was before Him. The church of Laodicea had not fully committed their lives to the Lord. Yes, they had accepted His Son, but their actions did not fully reflect their Christianity. They chose to rely on their own riches and strength instead of fully surrendering to the Lord. As a result of them staying complacent in their faith, God said that He would reject them. (Revelation 3:16)
Once we accept Christ, it is our responsibility to submit ourselves to the purification process of the Lord. In this process, we must fully surrender ourselves to the purging power of God. We have to allow our will to become subject to His will. We have to rid ourselves of what He doesn't like and take on what He does.
It is a process. It doesn't happen overnight. Yet, in the end, we will come forth like pure gold, shiny and pure, sparkling with God's holiness.
Verse of the Day: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:15, 16
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