Purify

1 Thessalonians 4:1-9



 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; ² for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴ that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵ not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; ⁶ that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. ⁷ For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. ⁸ Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit. 9 Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.

I want to tell you that keeping the commandments of God is not a juggling act.  Anyone that doesn't want to abound more and more each day in joy and sincere love from our God and interacting with each other has really been bound by the enemy's attacks.  On the other hand, maybe it could be we do not like taking commands or orders from a God we can't see.  God tells us that this book, our bible, is so easy that the simple can get it.  However, we look real simple in God's eyes when we just can't seem to come together as brothers and sisters, getting along as sincere loving, genuine, joyful adults.  See, our only way to instill the fear that God says we are to walk in, is to do whatever He asks and commands.  Then let Him move upon us, delighting us and scaring us half to death, at the same time to show us He truly does exist.  Everything we do and say is to bring us joy, knowing we are bringing Father God joy in what He asks and commands.  His commands are to deliver the joy, happiness and peace we desire, along with so much more of our inheritance that we should be overly ecstatic to bring this dream come true.  The bible ought to be building visions and dreams in us that nothing could stop us from wanting this life to manifest before our eyes.  God tells us who we are, not man.  God builds us up as we stay in His word, builds us into loving children if we will let Him raise us.  He wants us clean and purified from the inside out and we will be if we want to be.  Purify. 

God's blessings to us as we purify for Him,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst