Are you ready to allow God to change you from the inside out?Today's Scripture:
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:25-26
Reality TV has made a tremendous impact on viewers. It started with one quite successful show and then seemingly exploded into several viewer favorites. One show depicts house doctors who perform a complete makeover of the dilapidated house of someone who sees no other way of making his or her home a castle. The builders come in, demolish the old house if necessary, and rebuild everything. It's a complete makeover, and in the end some happy homeowners have a whole new property to live in.
This is not just a TV show, but also a picture of what happens to people when God changes them from the inside out. Picture God giving a person a "new heart."
God removes the hard, useless, willful, and disobedient heart and puts in its place a new model - healthy and beautiful, perfectly attuned to God and pliant.
This heart wants to obey God, follow his commands, and live out his plans. It is completely devoted to God.
That's what happened to you when you first started walking toward God. Maybe you fought with addictions, bad habits, and wrong attitudes that you couldn't stop. But God offered you hope. He made you over from the inside out. You are still you, and your personality is intact. But the attitudes, ideas, outlooks, and thoughts that fill your mind are different, new, life-giving, and life-enhancing. You are a new person.
Selah people' and friends no matter how much remodeling you need at any point, you can become new with God's presence and help. He changes people from the inside out.
"Make an extreme commitment to Christ and allow him to make that change in you that you've been unable to change yourself."
Your pastor,
Rev Patrick Muston ~Via mobile: The Friendly City by the Sea...Swansboro, NC
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