Filtered

The process of water purification involves the removal of any and all foreign substances that are mixed with the water. While there are actually a few methods that can be used to purify water, they all have the same goal and purpose of making the water clean.

After a heavy snow storm here in Minnesota we will sometimes grab some snow from outside and put it into a pot to melt on the stove, and after it is melted it is some of the best water that you will ever taste. This may not be a method that I would recommend to those who live in a highly populated urban area, as the snow may collect pollution and other toxins on the way to the ground, but where we live it is very, very quiet and rural, so the snow is very clean. But before we drink some of that freshly melted snow water we will still filter out any of the pine needles, twigs, and bits of tree bark that may have been mixed in the snow. What we are doing is transforming that snow into water, and filtering out all of the impurities in the process.  

Just as a water filtration/purification process removes all of the undesirable things that make the water dirty, we need to use the same kind of a process to remove all of the sins that make us impure in the sight of God.

The first step is obviously that we need to recognize the truth that we are sinners, and that we need the forgiveness that comes from Christ to have those sins taken away. After we have done this we need to then work on perfecting those areas in which we had failed, removing the things which cause us to sin, altering our lifestyle to be in accordance with the will of God.

Romans 12:1-2  “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

When we become a Christian, it means that we have become a follower of the teachings of Christ. To do this means that we need to put away the sinful deeds and actions of our carnal nature, and become transformed into a holy servant of God. We need to go through a purifier, so to speak, and remove all form of sin and iniquity out of our lives, putting off the “old man” and becoming new.

Ephesians 4:22-31  “That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Neither give place to the devil.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”

This is the natural state of a person without Christ, to lie, to hate, to gossip, to steal. But to “put on Christ” a person needs to cut all of those sins out of their life, and become purified through the blood of Christ, and to keep themselves pure. 

It is a process that we all need to go through, and it will require a change. You just need to be filtered.

In Christ,

Andrew

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