Read:
Philippians 1:6
6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
I can remember one night going to work at the school we cleaned for from our cleaning business. Everything seemed to be going right on schedule. As I walked in I notice a leak in the kitchen of the school, and water was coming from a pipe behind the dishwasher. Water began to leak under the walls and onto the carpet in the teachers lounge. I began to go crazy. I ran to the main breaker room and started turning off the breaker for the water. I turned off the hot water heater as well but nothing seemed to work. I began to try and tape the pipe, but every time that I would plug one hole another hole would appear etc. I was going nuts. I finally got a hold of the owner. He came running in there going crazy as well. He ran down one end while I ran down the other. You should of seen us. He got a hold of one of the guys that knew what to do. It ended up being one small lever that you had to pull. We would have never known without the direction of this one small step. Do you have holes in your life today. Maybe you have never been born again and no matter how many holes you plug, another one appears. you may become successful, but you still feel empty inside. You become healthy conscience, but it seems like no matter how many holes of life you try and plug up, there is still that feeling of emptiness. You can go from holes to holiness today by looking to Jesus in salvation. But then there are times as Christians when we have holes as well. We see this in the life of Job, Joseph, and the life of Paul. They were doing everything right in God's eyes but they began to see holes in there life. Job lost everything he had, and no matter how hard he prayed other holes would appear. Job focused on God and got everything restored to him again. Then there is Joseph. He gets thrown in a pit, almost murdered, sold into slavery, and accused of rape. He eventually became Pharaoh. Then we see Paul. He would start one church and see holes of doctrinal error sometimes pop up in the church and would have to address it. He would plug that hole to find another hole and on and on it goes. We can either go from holes to holiness by repentance and asking Jesus to be Lord of our life in salvation, or go from holes to holiness by focusing on Jesus with the holes that may be around you, and realize that God is in control of your life. He will complete the work by His holiness in you. Just remember that as a Christian we don't have to let the holes that pop up in our life to be who we really are. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. We are more than conquerors through the blood of Jesus. We don't have to let problems and trials define us, but we can let them mold us and shape us. When we begin to allow God to heal us in different areas as Christians, holes that are deep within our soul will appear. This could be a memory from the past, an emotional thing, or it could be a thought pattern that needs to be changed. We need to let the holiness of God plug up those holes, and let Him do His perfect work in our lives. But sometimes we just cover the holes in our life with spiritual bandages and they are never really dealt with By God's holiness. We make holes in our life as a Christian by the lack of knowledge of who we really are in Christ Jesus and the blood of Christ that has covered us. We just patch it up as if the hole is no longer there, but sooner or later that emptiness inside you will begin to surface once more. I can remember being a manager at a grocery retail store for about eight years. We had this one supervisor who didn't like holes in your department at all. I can remember several times coming in and finding holes from poultry being low, lunchmeat truck not coming in, and other low places all in my department, either by someone calling in, or problems with the truck that was supposed to show up etc. Then I hear those words you don't want to hear coming from the store manager. "He's coming!" Man! you should of seen all of us scattering around that store trying to get those holes plugged up somehow. It was like ground zero. I'd be spreading out, filling in, doing everything I could to get those holes covered. However, they were never filled in the right way. I just had to do something to get us through. Eventually we couldn't plug the holes up anymore, so the truth of what was really there showed up. You see friend, God in His infinite grace and mercy can fill in your life the right way by the right thing. His Holiness and grace can fill you with the healing you may need, or the financial need you may have need of, or whatever you may have need of today. God is there for you. Are you facing some holes in your life as a Christian? You can go from holes to holiness today in your walk with the Lord. Our focus in the middle of situations can be so powerful. You can call on the Lord Jesus in your situation, and He will carry you through.
prayer:
Lord we come to you now and ask for your forgiveness. We ask that you will forgive us for not keeping our focus on you through all of the holes in our life. It can be you pruning us, or it can be holes that we brought upon ourselves that we face today. Lord let your presence so fill our lives today, and let us go from holes to holiness, Amen.
by Keith Edwards
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