“Do you have a water filtration system for your home?” the
colorful advertisement in the magazine queried.
No, but I have a
filtration system for my life and it is the Word of God!
I do not want my spiritual life to become debilitated due to
personal or cultural influences that are hazardous to my spiritual health. So, I must filter everything through
God’s Word. I must submit the
emotional and everything else to the Biblical. My emotions can lie to me, but the Bible never lies to me.
To use this spiritual filtration system, I must read and
study God’s Word for myself, like the noble Bereans did. The book of Acts tells us “Now the Bereans were of more noble character
than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and
examined Scriptures everyday to see if what Paul said was true” (Acts 17:11).
God can handle my questions, my expressions of frustration,
disappointment, anger, pettiness, and peevishness when I put them through His
filtration system.
“Never will I leave
you never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).
God’s Truth is a filtration device that can clean out the
pollution caused by our worries and fears.
Lord, cleanse me and
make me a clean, useful vessel for You.
Claudia Jackson
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