Like molasses from the jar my stubborn and hardened heart has been so slow to move. I thank God He hasn't given up on me! Often times I find myself caught in a world of Christian cliché's, where one is admired for saying how they know they aren't perfect and like a work in progress, God is continuing to change them. Which in a sense is true. But there's something so much greater than that. Something that's past tense but completely effects today and my future. God isn't just changing me...He has CHANGED me!
I found a note that I wrote myself while listening to a sermon this past summer. It was based from our Study in Revelation 22:14- Here are the words of Pastor Colin...
"Simply owning a washing machine doesn't make your clothes clean nor does owning a laundry basket. Clothes must be washed. Simply owning the machine (Admitting you're dirty) doesn't cleanse you, only the submerging of dirt and sin in the blood of Jesus will do."
Later he prayed and today this is mine: "Wash me, clean me, change me until I meet you, so that every bit of evidence of sin is out of my life. Keep washing until the stain is out."
Yes, I'm a work in progress, but my my heart is no longer sitting on top of the machine. God has washed it.
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