Easily Tainted

Do you know how quickly we can be absorbed by the things of this world? Think about a paper towel placed in a cup of coffee. If you roll it up and stand it straight up you can actually watch as the coffee moves up the paper towel. Do you know what the coffee does to the paper towel? It turns it brown.

My point, the coffee represents the world and we are the paper towel. The more we sit and soak in the things of the world the more we become tainted and like the world. 

So, how do we really separate ourselves from the world? Do we really even desire to be separated from the World?

I often find myself caught up in so much of the worldly stuff and when God slows me down I realize just how easy it is to lose sight of the things of heaven. 

Is this what I am teaching my boys, the busyness of life, the pleasure of worldly things, a right now mentality? 

These are my own personal convictions, convictions that the Lord reveals to me with so much force it knocks the breath out of me. 

We desire more time in our days, yet so much of the time we are given is wasted on wants, self, pleasure, money, feel good things. 

Could it be that are minds, thoughts, and hearts are being saturated with more of the world than with God's Word?

Oh, brethren this is truth. If we don't discipline ourselves and spend time in God's Word, we will become tainted. We will begin to go through the motions and pace of the world instead of living and action on God's Word.

I need a change to take place within me that is so powerful, so strong, so overwhelmingly real that my heart is shattered and then put back together new and absorbed with only Christ and His Word. 

"You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought you a burnt offering, you would not accept it. The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise." Psalm 51:16-17

  

Jesus only You are able to turn our tainted hearts back to white. Please do so Father. Move in a mighty way with in us. May the move be so real, so strong, so life-changing that we are never the same again. Shatter the hardness and remove any and all callouses within us. Jesus help us to be better stewards with our time. And may we be more thankful for the time You are giving us to be changed, and make right what has been wrong. Amen