Does God speak to anyone else in strange ways? He communicates with me in the strangest and most beautiful ways. This is just one thing that I thought I’d share with you.

I needed to wash my hands a few minutes ago and went to pump the liquid soap from the dispenser. Usually the soap will pool up in the palm of my hand but this time it ran right out of my hand onto the counter. I pumped again (forever wanting to give another chance), thinking that maybe some air had gotten into the pump. What I discovered was that it wasn’t air that was the culprit. The dispenser was down to the last dregs of soap and instead of reaching under the cabinet and getting the large container of soap, someone had chosen to add water to the dispenser. This made it look like it was full of soap and there was soap still there but it was so watered down that the soap was pretty much useless.

Many churches of today are the same. From the outside it looks authentic. The color is there, there was useful soap there at one time. The problem is that when you add water to the soap you get more water than soap, you get pretty but useless bubbles and you don’t get clean.

It’s nice to have a nice church building. The colors may be there making for great “curb appeal”. Hopefully authentic, convicting, discipling teaching was there at one time. Any church that is any less than the house of God, it’s just any other attractive building. I don’t want air filled bubbles and fluff when I go to church. I don’t want a watered down, more palatable version of the Gospel. I want Truth from Almighty God. I want Truth that will step on my toes and transform my life. Anything else will serve only to pump my ego, putting my attention on myself and not the cross. Useless.

My Holy Lord, I don’t want to be a whitewashed tomb. I want You Lord. Look inside my heart and show me anything that is unclean that could separate me from You Lord. I want to be transformed by Your Truth Lord. My desire is that when I speak or write or whatever You call me to do that You would shine through me. Thank You Father that You created me to be in Your likeness and Your image and I ask that You would make me worthy of bearing Your image and Your Name.

Thank You Father that You loved me too much to give me anything other than Yourself. You love me so much Lord that You sacrificed Your only Son to die a wretched, cruel death to save me. Thank You for the blood that covers my sin so that I may come boldly before Your throne and fall at Your feet. Fill me today with everything that You have for me today. Send me where You would have me to go so that I can show You to others. I pray Father, that someone else would see You in me and would come to settle for nothing other than You. In the Precious Name of Jesus. AMEN.