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Devotional for Tuesday, July 5, 2016

His Word Is Alive and Active In Us”

Heart He touches my

by Dona Hake

 

 

 I can remember getting the tinniest splinter in my one finger.   No one tries to get splinters, they just happen.   I never would have thought I was going to get a splinter from a wicker basket that I was handling.  Even though it was so small that I could not see it, it immediately became tender to the touch.   I hate digging splinters out, but to leave it alone will certainly end up infected and even more painful.  
 
 
The story about my splinter is an analogy for this devotional and it can serve to  remind us of how many times the Word of God will expose things within us that are ever so tiny.  Our Lord desires that we be just as sensitive to our hearts when we become aware of the smallest of a sin that has entered our souls.   Maybe no one sees that you have sinned, yet you know it is there.   To leave any one sin left to itself will surely begin to affect your walk with Him.   It could eventually cause you to begin to compromise the truth you once held a strong conviction about.Sometimes there are things in our hearts that we think are okay to leave alone.  He well understands that our problems start as a seed and if let go it will gain momentum and cause us painful consequences.  We can choose to leave these “little things”  alone and bear painful consequences or allow Him to deal with it.    Sometimes the dealings of getting our hearts right isn’t always the most comfortable, but when it is taken care of, the healing will surely begin.
 
 

 

 

Hebrews 4: 12 – 13 (PHILLIPS)
” For the Word that God speaks is alive and active;

it cuts more keenly than any two-edged sword:

it strikes through to the place where soul and spirit meet,

to the innermost intimacies of a man’s being: it exposes

the very thoughts and motives of a man’s heart.

No creature has any cover from the sight of God;

everything lies naked and exposed before the

eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

 

I am so thankful that His Word is able to cut  right through to where soul meets spirit and joints meet marrow, and it is quick to judge the inner reflections and attitudes of our heart.  No one knows us better than the God that has made us!   He loves us so much and desires to lovingly deal with our hearts that we may continue to go forward and grow in Him.