‘Depart, depart, go out from this place, touch no unclean thing;
go out from the midst of her; be clean you that bear the vessels of the LORD.’ Isaiah 52:11
Say it different!
'Get out, get out, get away from where you find yourself right now in life, Do not be involved or touch the thing that is unclean and wrong. Separate yourself from whatever or whoever it is that is an offence to God. If you are going to be of any use to God in this degenerate age, you need to be clean; you need to be righteous.'
Now, here is a straight-to-the-point
verse; and it is a message to the every believer in these critical days; and it is a
message to you and me for such a time as we live in.
It is time to make a decision; it
is time to do something about the lukewarm-ness and half-heartedness of our
compromised and powerless life of faith.
It is time to forsake the world
and all of its sinful attractions. It is time to make radical decisions and
choices as to whether you and I are going to be of any use or effect in the
kingdom, and in reaching this world for Christ.
Time is short, and what we do
next will decide whether God can use us in what perhaps is the most critical
time in the history of this planet. We've got to be clean in heart and hand.
It is time for separation. We are
not of this world, but chosen and called out of it to become witnesses and
preachers of the good news of salvation. That is why we are still here. This is
not our home or inheritance. We are headed for our eternal home with Christ,
and we need to make sure we do not go there empty-handed. We had better make
sure that we have laid up some treasure there, for where our treasure is, there
will our hearts be also.
What is that treasure, except the
lives of men and women, of boys and girls, who heard about Jesus through our
voices and the way we live?
It is time to turn around.
I do not need to be specific any more
than the verse above is. The Holy Spirit is the one who will convict, convert,
and lead us into all truth; but it is truly time to stop playing games with the
spirit and depravity of this age and all of its delusions and sinful practises. We need to
get up, shake off the dust and muck of all that distracts us from the ways of
God. We need to put away everything that offends Him.
If we are to be those who will
carry the light and healing, the hope and assurance, the joy and evidence of
the transforming power of Christ, then we need to wash our hands of all the
pollutions and worthless gimmicks which this age is contaminated and hypnotized
by.
We need to be clean in hand and heart so that
we shall indeed be those that carry in our palms the power of the gospel, and
not just the talk.
‘Who shall ascend into the hill
of the LORD, or who shall stand in his holy place? asks the psalmist.
The answer: ‘He that has clean
hands, and a pure heart’. (Psalm 24:3-5)
It is time to decide for what
purpose God has called us, and whether we are fit and true enough to fulfil the
work he has given us to do.
The love of the world and the
glittery things of this world will steal your soul away from the call of
Christ. You can talk the talk, but it is nothing if the heart is lost in the
attractions and pleasures of sin and selfishness.
Let us be who and what God called
us to be for his glory and praise.
Pilgrim Warrior
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