Me: Howdy Prodigal! Your friend looks like he was weaned on a sour pickle.
Prodigal: No he is just upset. He needs some encouragement.
Me: Maybe I can share some encouragement.
This is from the Secret of Happiness by Billy Graham
If we are truly pure in our hearts, we will have a single-minded devotion to the will of God. Our motives will be unmixed, our thoughts will not be adulterated with those things which are not right. And our hearts will be clean, because we will not tolerate known sin in our hearts and allow it to pollute us.
We must continually go to God to cleanse our hearts. Now is a time of confession and cleaning of our hearts before the Lord.
1 John 1:8-9
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
