Splinter

Sometimes, no most of the time, we fight our flesh to keep God's will in our lives. I am pleased to say, I just nailed the last nail in the coffin, so to speak, in a 6-month fight with my flesh! Although this last nail was a hurtful one, I know with out a shadow of doubt the Lord was trying to move certain things from my heart.

The lord gave me the following metaphor for me to see what he was doing with me.

Sometimes our flesh can get into our hearts like a splinter. A splinter often times is ½ in the flesh and ½ out. My mother used to tell me, let me get that out of you now, if not your skin will grow over it and it will have to surface out on its own. So, spiritually speaking what I did was allowing this splinter to stay in my heart. I allowed the flesh to grow over it. The Lord had to show me that in order for him to remove this from me, He would have to work this splinter out of my heart. He also showed me that since I allowed my FLESH to grow over it and remain, he would have to cut my flesh…and this would hurt. But My God loves me enough to circumcise the flesh in my heart so that he can move me onward in HIS plans for my life. So, that I might be a useable vessel for His Will, not mine.

So, when you find yourselves in places where you have allowed a splinter to enter your heart, I encourage you to resist your flesh and pluck it, BEFORE the flesh takes over…

Galatians 5:16-17
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.