A Daily Devotional –Cleansing – The Eternal Word
Comment: I have never been in a refinery but I
have walked by one or two in my earlier years growing up. Busy places where you
can sometimes feel the heat. In thinking about this, I did work at a finishing
plant as a metal press operator and there learned that metal when heated could
be molded and shaped into most anything. Applying life to the Living Word of
God is already accomplished by our Creator who is the Father of His only
begotten Son – The LORD Jesus Christ/Messiah. So, anything I say about molding
and shaping the child of God (The believer in Christ) falls short, way short of
what God’s will is for His children, but to God be the Glory. Amen!
Devotional: Earlier
this morning while reading in Proverbs, I was challenged by this verse. The refining pot is for silver and the
furnace for gold, but the LORD tests the hearts – Proverbs 17:3. Now
everyone knows that I am not a doctor or the son of one, but without the aorta
and pulmonary entrance and exits, the heart is of little value. The cleansing
actions of the liver and kidney, also the infusion of oxygen by the lungs
provide for our daily physical life. Praise the LORD that as our Creator, He
arranged our bodies as a system that works very well.
Mostly it is we human beings that mess with the
functions of our bodies; drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, poor eating habits are just
a few of the objects we instill in our bodies that effect the function of the
heart. Stress, depression and a lack of exercise are effects that also trouble
the heart. Now we know this, but we
do ignore this as well as we know it. We are responsible to our physical body
to keep it healthy, not the doctor. He or she has a job because we willingly
neglect our responsibility.
The LORD God speaks a lot in His Word about the ‘heart’
of His children, but He is not referring to our physical heart, He is referring
to our ‘SOUL’. Our soul belongs to God, like our physical heart belongs to us.
Notice what the LORD has to say about the soul in Ezekiel 18:1-9. Because we
have a sinful nature, our soul is abused like our physical counterpart with SIN
right from the beginning, it is not a disease like heart disease, it is more
serious than that.
Since I am running out of time, I will have to pick
this up again on Monday, I apologize for that since what I intended to say
about Proverbs 17:3 is not what I have written at all. Hate to leave you
hanging, but many are the plans of a man’s heart, but God directs his steps,
Proverbs 16. Good food for the soul! See Romans 5 -7.
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