A thought from Jason
September 18, 2000
Think of yourself as a city
Lets talk about a certain city that is very important to a lot
of people. It has huge walls, gates for people to enter through
and houses to keep the prize possessions. This city cannot be
found here on Earth. It has safeguards and locks to keep the
unwanted people out. Along the streets of this city bears the
wounds of previous attacks from outsiders.
Can you guess what or where the city is? Well, can you? At
first the city sounds like a normal place to live and reside but
this city houses what we hold dear to us. What we hold dear to
us influences us and effects our emotions. The city is your
heart. The heart of your physical body pumps blood throughout
your entire body but the heart that I'm speaking of is your
spirit. The spirit or soul within you houses what you want to
put in it. Hopefully you put what is pure in your heart but to
be honest most of us spend most of our day shoving filth and sin
into our cities. Why do we like to dirty our streets with such
trash?
Have you ever allowed someone to enter your city or your life
and they lead you on to trust in them. Later on you find that
your cities streets or your emotions have been torn up, dirtied
and forgotten about because of a person that you let get to
close to the center of your world. That certain person that
betrayed your trust or word has now infiltrated a part of your
city that wasn't even made for them to stand in.
We all live with people. We talk with people, look at people
and exist here with people but the problem is we really don't
know how to handle people. Most people say that they know how to
but they don't. Unless they have a throne placed into their
inner circle of their city. Who sits on the throne? Jesus of
course. Then before the person enters your city you take them
before the King and introduce them. When the person who wants to
deceive you, harm you emotionally or physically plots their
scheme against you Jesus will stand and move you into a
protection zone.
People will hurt us. People will go in and out of our lives but
we must present the people in our lives to God so that he can
filter out of our cities or lives the junk that we don't need.
So is there a throne in your city? And who sits on it?
Have a blessed day.... Jason