even if what you have
accumulated was gathered by false pretense
even if what you have
accumulated is not good for your family
even if what you have
accumulated has not been good for you
even if what you have
accumulated is killing you.
If what you have learned -
what you have accumulated is not working for you, it is time to let it go.
I know it is a lot easier
to blame shift than to recognize your own indiscretions and take responsibility
for them.
It's not easy to undo,
because it might require becoming undone. (Read
twice)
This is what happened to
Isaiah. Isaiah 6:5
5. Then
said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I
dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the
King, the Lord of hosts.
What I am about to present
to you cannot be received until (what is holding you back - what is not
of God) is removed. You must unlearn
or
remove altogether those things that are keeping you from the center of God's will. In order to receive new light - before you can receive what God freely gives -
an equivalent of what is about to come in, must first be removed from its
current pedestal and removed.
Think of it this way: If
you had a glass of water and someone put one drop of poison in the glass, how
much clear, pure water would you have to pour into the glass until you were
sure you could drink from the glass?
Would you were feel
comfortable drinking from that glass if all you did to clean it
was to pour clean water in it?
No. But if you poured it out and cleaned the
glass before you put clear, clean water in it...
It is the same with much
that you have learned and ingested into your inner man over the years. You think that by pouring new knowledge or new
truth or new concepts (in your inner man) that what you believe will be purified. But it is not true. Unless you remove the poison and clean
the glass, your container will never be pure enough to drink from.
Remember the scriptures:
Matthew 9:16, 1716. No man putteth a piece
of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh
from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
17. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles:
else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but
they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Can you see why I used the
term unlearn, and undo.
It's not enough to keep
piling new on the old and somehow have it come out OK."
Excerpt from God thinking Preempt by Keith C. Powell copyright 2015
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