I am skillfully and wonderfully made. Crafted with precision by the hands of God. Designed intricately from the inside out. I am an immaculate conception, conceived because of love. My body is not merely flesh and blood but a temple which hosts the living God who dwells on the inside of me. I am unique in design. If all the zillions and zillions of stars in the sky were people you would never find one like me. My Creator sits and counts the grains of sand and as he rolls each one between his fingers He ponders upon me. He not only calls me His creation for I am more than the plants and animals, but I am His daughter. He looks down from the heavens and watches me, protects me, loves me. He gave me fingers to write, feet to dance, a voice to sing, eyes to see, hands to build, ears to hear, a heart to love and a body to live and move upon this earth fulfilling a purpose! Have you forgotten who you are? This is the truth about you! Your circumstances, life experiences, failures or mistakes don't create you. You existed long before those things came to be. You were an act of love. God desired to create you!
This month I am taking the time to read through the book of Proverbs. No matter how many times you read it you will always learn something new. This is arguably the best book ever written on purity. If you feel like you want to be inspired by purity then begin to read the book of Proverbs. It teaches discretion, wisdom, prudence, resourcefulness and all things practical. In order to renew your mind from the worlds mindset you need to wash it with something clean, just like you would wash your dirty clothes. If you get a stain on your clothing its not going to come out magically. You need soap and possibly a heavy duty stain-remover like shout to aid in removing the stain. Your mind is the same; the thinking of the world and its ideas stain your mind. You have to work in order to remove those stains. The Word of God acts as the soap to wash your mind clean and replace former ideas with something new. As you meditate the Word it removes old thought patterns and you begin to hear the voice of God above the voice of the world. It's a process that you have to continually work at. I encourage you to read through Proverbs and let it renew your mind daily. The world has conditioned the mind of society to believe casual sex is okay, immorality is acceptable, and virtually anything goes. We need to actively recondition our minds and our thoughts on a daily basis. WARNING: this is not an easy lackadaisical task. Just like you have to study and repeat drills in school in order to learn something you need to commit your mind and heart to adopting a new way of thinking.
Proverbs 2:1-5 says, " My son (daughter), if you receive my words and treasure my commands within you so that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding; Yes if you cry out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God." You see it takes seeking, and trying to understand. You have to search it out, look for it, cry out for it. It takes a decision from you. I think everyone at some point needs to ask themselves, who am I right not? First, what has made me who I am? Who has taught me? What did I listen to that I allowed to shape my mind, form my opinions and fuel my thoughts? Was my source, my upbringing, my teachers right or wrong on the subject of purity and morality. Challenge your belief system today, and dare to leave behind your old ways of thinking and venture out on a journey of learning what God thinks about who you are. Let Him lead you into 2011 with a whole new outlook on life and the world around you. I challenge you to rethink everything! Forget who you've been, and let God bring out your true design and unveil your beauty as someone who is pure and undefiled by the world. Renewing my mind today will change who I am and what I do tomorrow. Change begins with one single thought...and I think I'll go read another chapter in Proverbs.
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