@ our July Refresh Service (we have a Worship Night every 1st Wednesday of the month… Christian Life Center, Tinley Park IL) I felt that there were people there who wanted to really be changed, who had baggage that they’d been carrying for years.  There were others there that carried baggage the same way, but were content on hanging on to their baggage because it’d been there for so long.  This post goes along with a previous post talking about malfunctioning Christians.

The question @ hand that night and to you now is are you white washed or have you been washed white?  There are a lot of us who are white washed… What is that Jon Jones? Imagine a dirty wall….. Now, to quickly get it’s appearance to look acceptable, you can take some paint and paint over the dirt.  It would look nice, but underneath the paint, the dirt would still there.  For many reasons this is what has happened to Christians.  We have covered up our issues, our baggage, instead of getting them dealt with; totally eradicated!  One of the many reasons is that this has occurred is that we’ve faced the pressure of putting up a front.  When we received Jesus as our Lord & Savior, there was a religious pressure saying that either we weren’t really saved if we had issues, or we didn’t know how to get it dealt with or who to tell because we saw other people faults gossiped and passed throughout the church.

So we covered it up, rejoicing on Sunday mornings, midweek services and the like, but defeated in our homes!  And the longer the issue is not dealt with, the stronger the hold it has on us…..

So how do we deal with these issues….?  How do we allow His Righteousness to exude through us and lay down the chains of bondage?

We will finish this tomorrow, so stay tunes…..

Be Blessed,

J2