One aspect of the wilderness is that it is a place of cleansing and preparation . ...But how ?
In the natural a person who over a period of time continues to eat bad and unhealthy food can will develop kidney problems . With enough time and abuse of kidneys through unhealthy eating habits the kidneys can fail causing a person die . In the natural to treat this a person will be put on dialysis . Which a machine that externally cleans the blood .
This person must do treatments everyday for several hours a day and change there eating habits . If this person does not do the treatments which clean waste from the blood and change eating habits to eat more healthy they will die .
The dialysis is not a permanent fix its temporary . Until the person can get a new kidney by receiving a kidney transplant . The catch is new kidneys are limited and are only given to those who have the best chance of survival .
Our wilderness is very similar . This is where we learn to stop eating the unhealthy things if the world and begin to eat healthy spiritual food ( the word of God ) While at the same time begin treatments of spending time in prayer repenting so we get cleansed from all the sin already in our hearts .
The goals is to receive a new heart and a new spirit which is gods promise . But if we do not complete this process we will not be good candidates to receive the new spiritual organs just like in the natural .
If we receive a new heart with out completing this process well ruin the new organ like we did the old and be held accountable for squandering what God has given us . Like Saul who the bible says received a new heart and was changed into another man . He prophesied with the prophets but could not maintain this spiritual level because he was not trained to stay clean and separate from the world . So he became deluded and disobeyed God and was judged for his sin . He never repented .
6 And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
1 Samuel 10 7 and 9
7 And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass
When we are clean the lord will say to us like he did his deciples you are already clean . My word has made you clean . You only need wash your feet .
John 13:10
Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
As for us who are still being made clean we need to continue in our wilderness to completion On dialysis until we receive our new hearts as we understand more the function of the wilderness we should all embrace the wilderness .
Our perspective must change . Life is not in the abundance of our possessions nor in having many experiences or much education or knowing many people .
A person who thinks this way still loves the world and the things of the world therefor the love of the father is not in him .
But true life is received only from intimacy with Christ and sustained through full obedience and total surrender .
May God receive all the glory for his revaluation and May we all be like David . Men and women after Gods own heart .. amen
Deacon Jeremiah Hopes Sr
Fire of God Church
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