When I was a little guy, I’d come in from playing rough-'n-tumble with
the guys; Mom would send me to the bath.
I'd run the water, sit on the edge of the bathtub, wet the end of the
washcloth, and clean a little spot right in the middle of my forehead. I could then announce with a clear conscience
that I'd washed. Mom would say,
"Get real!"
Reality
says that if you are not 100% clean you are still dirty. In a spiritual sense you are never clean,
simply by quitting one or two bad habits and going to church; that is reformation. If you get rid of all the bad
habits, go to church all the time, go on mission trips,
sing in the choir and give all your money – that is incredible reformation. And it still isn't enough; in fact, it's not
even what God wants, or what He requires! God requires a transformation. Your heart must change before your actions mean
anything!
How do you
do that? How do you change? YOU don't! Christ does it in you!
There is a
principle of love that says you love what the one you love loves. Paul says to get rid of all that
shopping-list of bad things, but our problem is that we love those things; we
have a base nature that tends to get worse, not better.
The only way to get rid of all those bad
things is to love the opposite.
When you
begin to place your heart’s affection on Christ, the one Who died for you, your
desire for the baser things in life will begin to grow strangely dim.
Today…for YOU
Where will your mind dwell today, earth….or heaven?
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