A Clean Sanctuary

Me: The water is so clear!

Prodigal: You can see to the bottom.

Me: My thoughts are not that clear right now.

Prodigal: Share about the Lord and maybe that will help.

This is from the book How to be Filled with the Holy Spirit by A.W. Tozer

To God, our thoughts are things. Our thoughts are the decorations inside the sanctuary where we live. If our thoughts are purified by the blood of Christ, we are living in a clean room no matter if we are wearing overalls covered with grease. Your thoughts pretty much decide the mood and weather climate inside your heart, and God considers your thoughts part of you.

Thoughts of peace, thoughts of pity, thoughts of charity, thoughts of God, thoughts of the Son of God–these are pure things, good things and high things. Therefore, if you would cultivate the Spirit’s acquaintance, you must get hold of your thoughts and not allow your mind to be wilderness in which every kind of unclean beast roams and bird flies. You must have a clean heart.

Lord, the world would have me focus on the pain, the impossible. Look at what the Lord has already done? Look at what the Lord has worked out. Focus on what is of God and ignore the rest.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Colossians 3:23-24

Jennifer Van Allen

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