CHASING PURITY

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How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. (Psalms 119 vs 9)NIV

There was a particular period I was reading a book (Face to Face with God) by Bill Johnson of Bethel Church, he gave an illustration about being shaped or conformed unto the image of Christ.

“A man asked a sculptor how he was going to make an elephant from the irregularly shaped stone, the sculptor replied quite simply and fascinating. He said, I would just remove the part that does not look like an elephant.”

Pretty good shay! Then it hit me, how do you shape an elephant if you don’t know how an elephant looks like? Yeah, you won’t even know what to remove, talk less of how to remove. This shows the importance of knowledge: what you know determines where you would be known and what you would be known for.

Not just knowing, the effect of knowing. We should come to the understanding that whatever Jesus had said concerning any issue while on earth is the absolute because he is the embodiment of Grace and Truth, the law fulfilled, the word in the flesh;
Jesus said, man shall not live by bread ALONE but by every WORD of God; our lives should be an evidence of His word. Like  Saint James mentioned, “wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, not hearers ONLY, deceiving your own selves….but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”-James 1 vs 19-25

According to Ephesians 6 vs 17, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God could also sharpen you more in conformity to the image of Christ and also release/cut away excesses that be; yeah, the word of God is alive and quick, sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the diving asunder of souls and spirit and joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intent of the heart.
The word of God is our sculptor cutting/shaping us to the image of Christ (1 John 3 vs 3) as our mind is constantly being Renewed (Romans 12 vs 2).
So many instructions in the word on purity, meditate on whatever is pure (Philippians 4 vs 8). Guess what! The word is pure

Your word is very pure; therefore your servant loves it- Psalm 119 vs 140
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes- Psalms 19 vs 8b

So stay with His word and you would stay in purity!

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