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wE need a shovel ... not a rake

6/26/2014

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Many times when our desires are out of check we attempt to use a rake to put them back into check when in reality a shovel is needed. The real work is not on the soil of behavior, just raking them away only to return …. It is only the shovel of the gospel that can uproot the corrupt desires of the heart and give new godly desires.

“…who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify 

                                         for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.”  (Titus 2:14)

The shovel of the gospel will uproot corrupt desires and allow for new roots of desires to grow in the heart.

            “It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live 

            self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age …” (Titus 2:12)

The hymn “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” invites us to confess what we want and what we should desire in our heart:

            Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it; Prone to leave the God I love
            Here's my heart, O, take and seal it; Seal it for Thy courts above."

Working in the soil of our desires is not an easy job, but is a necessary one.


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    Pastor Al Galvan is the Pastor of New Life Christian Fellowship - East L.A. since 2006 as a church plant and received a Bachelors in Pastoral Theology from the E.L.A. School of Ministry in 1986.  

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