“What do you need to change??

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 658

November 21, 2023///

Some of you may be like me and are not gifted in the growing of plants and flowers. However, each of us knows that sometimes in our potted plants one or more of the leaves will turn brown. Even the outside plants and flowers need some of the old stuff cut away. Or in the outside flowers or plants, weeds must be pulled up.

They also must be kept watered and if you are really into it, fed some kind of growth product.

Today may we look at Hebrews 4:12 with the plant and flower analogy in our minds!

Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

We are like plants and flowers, and need some stuff cut away or removed from our heart and lives!  The writer of Hebrews tells us that God’s Word will do exactly that!

It has been said when we read the Word to also let the Word read us. Here is how that verse reads in the Passion Translation.

Hebrews 4:12 (TPT)

For we have the living Word of God, which is full of energy, and it pierces more sharply than a two-edged sword. It will even penetrate to the very core of our being where soul and spirit, bone and marrow meet! It interprets and reveals the true thoughts and secret motives of our hearts.

What do each of us need to cut away from our lives? For each of us it is different, but the Word of God will shine the light on what needs to be uproot and taken from our lives. The Word will reveal to us the true thoughts and motives of our hearts when we open our minds and spirits to the revelation it gives.

As we are open to let the Word and Spirit show us areas that are not making us stronger in Jesus but are making us weaker, we can allow the direction to flow to us to deal with each of those.

Is it a habit, pride, guilt, shame, past, other people, or pleasing other people. Wrong decisions, relationships, and the list could go on and on. We can grow in the Lord and in the Power of His Might, by responding to what the Word makes real to us!

The Word not only shows us what to cut away and get rid of, but the Word will water the soil of our heart so the Truths that we read and meditate on will grow and flourish.

Ephesians 5:26–27 (KJV)

²⁶ That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

We are the Church of Jesus Christ here on earth. The church is not a building, but we are the temples of the Holy Spirit.

Let’s look at the Passion Translation!

Ephesians 5:26–27 (TPT)

²⁶ to make us holy and pure, cleansing us through the showering of the pure water of the Word of God.

²⁷ All that he does in us is designed to make us a mature church for his pleasure, until we become a source of praise to him—glorious and radiant, beautiful, and holy, without fault or flaw.

As I close, let me encourage you to read, meditate, and listen to the still small voice letting you know what to change, etc.! Then I encourage you to allow the presence and power of the Lord God Almighty to give you victory in every part of your life!

Our lives without the Word on a consistent basis is like the neglect of a plant or flowers, our spiritual life will soon wither away, and we will not be fulfilling our destiny in Jesus.

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Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you that you give us the way to life through the Living Word that we can read and meditate on and let it read us. And, the Living Word, which was Jesus whose examples in the Word show us how to live. How foolish it is when we think we can just do it our way and still walk in the power and authority you give us. May we hide your Word in our heart that we will not sin against you! Amen!

Love, MeMaw