Friday, November 21, 2014

"Let God Work"

"Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." (Psalms 51:10) Obviously this onion has yet to be peeled. When we are talking about the God of Wonders, do you ever wonder if He has really finished creating? I really don't think that He has finished yet; as a matter of fact, I am quite sure that His best work is yet to come. Revelation 21:1 says, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." I am not quite sure what John meant about there being no more sea, except maybe because he was a fisherman, it just happened to be something that he noticed was missing; bad news for some of those surfing pastors from the 60's and 70's though; but I doubt there will be any golf courses either. When it comes to God doing a work in us, He is never done doing what needs to be done in us; at least not until we are done with this life, and even then, I believe we will still be changing and growing in heaven; otherwise, why would there need to be the Tree of Life with the twelve manner of fruits? (Revelation 22:2) Even after we have been given peace, and even after guarding the peace that we have been given, there is still more to be done in this sinful body; this body of flesh, which always wants to be satisfied, and really never dies until it is physically dead. Don't you ever realize how you can be asking for forgiveness with one side of your thoughts, and planning for mischief at the same time with the other? Or maybe that's just me? Actually, it's just our hearts that need fixing; our minds will follow the direction of our hearts, so it the heart that God needs to work on, again and again! That might be the biggest problem for those who have been saved for many years, is the idea that God changed their heart and now that is done, so now it's been years of working on their minds. God was never done working on our heart! We might have thought that because He changed our heart, He was done working on it; but He took a heart of stone, and it made into something that He could create from; something formable and to mold into the image of Jesus Christ... "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this Man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but He that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over His own house; whose we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end." (Hebrews 3:1-6)

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