Do you ever get dirty? I mean really dirty? Do you like to stay dirty? I can get as dirty as anyone: working on cars, doing yard work, playing sports, etc., but, I do not like staying dirty. Shortly after finishing whatever sweat-inducing, dirt-clinging activity I am doing, I like to clean up and put on clean clothes. And, it doesn't end there...
After getting cleaned up and putting on fresh clothes, I will not put the dirty clothes back on - they have to be cleaned as well. I want them to be washed and dried and folded and put away. I don't leave them laying around dirty, waiting to be put back on the next time I have to work. No one likes putting on dirty clothes. So, why do we continually put on the same sins over and over?
Today's word is James 1:21, ESV, which reads, "Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls."
Just as dirty clothes foul our outward appearance, sinning fouls our outward appearance. When others see us sin, they see the dirt on us. More important, though, is when we sin, we feel the dirtiness on us. Why do we continually go back to the same sins that so easily beset us? Why do we return to the same sins over and over and over? Why do we wallow in the dirt instead of shedding those dirty clothes and freshening up and putting on something clean? Because we don't have the implanted word...
To be implanted means to be inserted, grafted, embedded. When we allow GOD'S word to be embedded into our very being, it will keep us from becoming so easily soiled by all the sin that is prevalent in today's world. Just as we don't like to walk around in dirty clothes, we shouldn't like walking around in sin. And, you don't have to - take off the sin and allow GOD'S Word, the Word that is able to save your very soul, to become implanted. Then, the inside will be clean even when the outside isn't.
Be Blessed,
Mickey T
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