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| Section: Walking In The Faith |
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| Category: Biblical Teaching / Lesson |
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| God Can Make You Wet Cement Again |
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A book I read several years ago called “Children Are Wet Cement” taught that children are moldable until they reach the ages of 10 to 12. After that, they become “set” just as cement will become when poured and allowed to harden. The book showed the importance of ‘pouring’ morality, decency, spirituality, love and every other positive attribute into your children while they are still young and moldable before they become “set” in their ways. I would like to approach this concept on a biblical level.
I remember, before I was saved, I would try to change bad habits in my own power. I would get up and try to approach the day, willing myself to be a better person, but I would fail miserably before I could even get out the door to go to work. How many of us know that, if it’s hard to control our environment at home, it is that much harder within a ‘work’ environment around those we can’t possibly love as much as our own family? I was perpetually convicted and amazed at my lack of strengths in so many areas.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but I now know that it was the Holy Spirit gently nudging me and convincing me that I needed to give those areas of weakness over to Him. I kept trying to clean myself up but ultimately needed to commit my life to Christ. I found that there was no possible way that I could please God in my own power. Only belief in Jesus and the fact that He died on the cross for my sins would please Him and deliver me from my failure to change under my own power.
When I finally got to that ‘low’ point in my life, with my marriage hanging in the balance, did I truly commit my life to Christ. By asking Him to come into my heart I finally began to understand the true definition of change. That change wasn’t as much an outward act as it was an inward act that completely altered and changed my perspective of everything around me. I no longer tried to change………I was changed……completely altered………made new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
That once hard-as-cement person I had become was made “wet cement” again. God began to shape me into the person that He had always intended me to be; not by my power but by the power of the Holy Spirit. It has been roughly 25 years since that life changing experience and I’m not the same person I was then. I am not perfect, but I am forgiven. And, with that peace, I strive to move forward daily with the mind of Christ. (John 3:3)
It has been said that the definition of a grave is a rut with the ends kicked out. If you feel callous to those around you, trapped in that everyday rut of continual bad habits that you just can’t seem to pull yourself out of……..give it to Jesus! I promise you He will soften your heart and reshape you into the jewel He wants you to be, perfectly formed; a positive force to those around you. Trust me, God is in the “wet cement” business and He wants to form you into His image today! |
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| Date of Submission: 2007-06-13 12:06:06 |
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