The Microwave Effect

Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.  Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1-2 NIV

So many look to change their life and when they do they look for the microwave effect, the instant fix. However, it takes a lot more than just a quick fix. When we say yes to God we must be ready to go through the process of being fixed. It's like being in a slow cooker, a slow cooker cooks the meat from the inside out. Rom 12:1-2 talks about presenting ourselves a living sacrifice Holy and acceptable unto God. It talks about transforming which is making a change, not conforming to the ways of this world. Therefore when we surrender we are asking God to make the change. But just know it is a process. So don't be discouraged (or) stop fighting for you life in Christ. When the process is complete then we can look at the man in the mirror(self), we can see the process is being completed. Just know this is not a microwave effect, the instant fix. It is a change in progress.

Love and happiness

Eustine

When life's disappointments Rot from the inside OUT

 Colossians 3:8-9 (KJV)

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Life disappointments can cause people to retract back to their hiding place which is within ourselves. We do this to shield ourselves from being hurt by those we think are friends and yes our family. By holding the anger, malice and hurt inside it can become like a plague that will rot through our hearts that can become hardened. When this happens we become afraid to open ourselves to be loved, to receive others that want to befriend us. Hiding such unclean things will cause a decomposing and rotting of our hearts, and with that, it begins to show on the outside. We begin to hurt others by talking, being malicious, and pushing them away do to life problems. But in order for us to put those things behind us we must become new in Christ and put the old thing behind us that is causing the decomposing of the heart.  To become clean and free from the rotting of our hearts we must ask God in Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. This must be a daily prayer in order for us to be free from the rotting plague that is keeping us from living life Gods Way.

Eustine Harper