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59. Impurities 01.30.20

59. The Lord always gives me messages that make me laugh and are a bit unconventional. This morning I was in the bathroom doing that fun thing us girls always do. You know that amazing feeling of just going to town on blackheads and seeing all that yuck come out of your pores. After a week in a country with less than ideal water and drinking soda non stop my face has been a mess. I should have made one of those you tube pimple popping videos. Anyway, as I’m going to town with the squeeze the Lord says to me “that’s one of my favorite things, too.” Puzzled I’m thinking to myself “Popping blackheads Lord?!” He simply replied “No Ash, eradicating impurities!”
Proverbs 25:4
Remove impurities from the silver and the silversmith can craft a fine chalice;
Romans 6:19
I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
When you welcome the Lord into your heart and let the Holy Spirit guide you, something happens inside of you. Sometimes it’s a slow gradual change, other times it’s a night and day bandaid tearing off situation. Slowly you’ll notice that the things of the world don’t have the same appeal they once did. You’ll notice your language changing, you’ll notice a desire to surround yourself with people you admire and that can mentor you and help raise you up. You’ll find yourself diving deeper into scripture and enjoying your time in the word. You’ll begin to see the world with the same eyes that the Lord has. Slowly things will look different to you, and you’ll never be the same.
The Lord has a deep desire to have a genuine relationship with you. He desires to change your heart from the inside out. He wants nothing more than the opportunity to open your eyes and to strip you of your impurity.
1 Peter 1:7
These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
1 John 3:2-3
2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

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