Craig’s work has got me thinking, you maybe saying, “Oh no! Not again.” Well it’s true. Having grown up in the church and around the Christian community, I’ve seen The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, to borrow from the Clint Eastwood movie.
Sometimes we come to Christ thinking that because we have excepted Christ’s work on the cross that that nullifies all the baggage we have in our lives. This is just not true. We have to let Christ start UXO work in our hearts and lives. Our minds are full of land mines just waiting to go off. Planted there by years of crafty work by our enemy, as well as by our selves and others around us.
If you don’t believe me, just try to think of a situation where you did something, and then though where did that come from? I have at least one of those stories. It involved a kitchen, pudding and rage, that’s all I’m going to say about it, but when it happened it scared me, I didn’t know that I was capable of such a strong reaction. In reality I had just set off a land mine, that I didn’t know was there. And I believe that God is still working through the mess in my mind that triggered that reaction.
Well what do we do about it? We don’t want to go around exploding and blowing up our lives. God tells us to confess our sins and he is faithful to forgive us and clean us up. So I pray and ask for forgiveness and then ask God to search my heart and deactivate the hidden things that are in my life. See God knows everything in and around you that can come against you. He knows the lies you and I believe. He knows the sins we have and struggle with every day. But we have to invite Him to remove them. We have to give Him room to work. And we have to listen to what He says or we will get hurt.
Start your day by reading your Bible, pray that you will understand what you are reading and listen for what God is saying, and I believe in time you will see the things you need to have God deal with, the things He is asking you to do with His help and you will be able to start enjoying your life more and more….
Psalm 139 New King James Version (NKJV)
139 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3 You [a]comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
5 You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in [c]hell, behold, You are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall [d]fall on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
12 Indeed, the darkness [e]shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
13 For You formed my inward parts;
You [f]covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for [g]I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15 My [h]frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
19 Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
20 For they speak against You wickedly;
your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with [k]perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
24 And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.