Soap Lesson #4

As the understanding of Caleb’s defect began to sink into my brain, I began to make connections between his physical heart and the spiritual heart of myself and many, many others.  Caleb was born with no signs of having any physical issues.  He looked normal on the outside and had absolutely no heart murmur,

but on the inside his heart was defected.  His heart was doing a job, but it wasn’t the job that his body needed for survival.   

 

Aren’t we the same way? 

We try with all our being to look right and appear to have it all together, but inside we are dying.  We try hard to let the Lord determine our steps, but the world wins out.  The world tells us how to look, act, and be so we follow only to deplete our body of the spiritual oxygen we need for survival.   We fall into the trap that is mentioned in Colossians 2:8:

We become captive to the hollow and deceptive philosophy which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of the world rather than Christ.

It is the opposite of how the Word tells us things should be.  The Lord tells us in 2 Corinthians 2:4:16 that outwardly we are to be wasting way, but inwardly we are to be renewed day by day. 

How do we receive this renewal each day?  How can we leave the fatal defect behind us and receive healing?

Unlike Caleb, we can fix the problem.  Later in the 2 Corinthians passage, we are told to fix our eyes on what is unseen not on what is seen. 



My little guy just 2 weeks after leaving the hospital.  Doesn't he look healthy?

Do we go to Savior for healing?  Do we allow him to perform surgery on our “issue” areas?  Being in ministry, I can tell you that many Christians don’t allow the Father to cleanse them.  They love the sin…world more than the Father. 

Don’t fall into the same trap.  If you don’t seek the Father, he will either perform “open heart surgery” or he will deny you for eternity.   

SEEK THE UNSEEN!  FREE YOURSELF FROM THE SILENT DEFECT OF YOUR HEART!