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Living right every day; this is our thought for today. Do we live consistently righteously in our everyday life? Are those things we read in scripture and pray about in our prayers true, and evident in our daily lives? The world we live in is full of temptation and wickedness, and it can lure us into situations that can challenge our faith as we try to make our way through life. We can find ourselves living a double life.
As Christians we realize that we are being refined each and every day by trials and tribulations. This is our furnace, fired so that once purified we will shine like the sun, and just as pure gold we will become soft and malleable in the hand of our Heavenly Father. 100% pure gold is easily cast or molded into shape, but even though it can easily be made into intricate shapes, it is prone to damage, and can be bent out of shape. Once refined by God we too are precious, beautiful, and highly sought after, but we must also be guarded, protected, and treated with great care lest we be crushed, or bent. The more pure our faith, the more susceptible we are to being damaged by the slightest hint of sin, and the more attentive our Father must be to us. We are susceptible to damage, innocent, and childlike… we are His prized possession.
On the day that we accept Jesus as our savior we wash our robes clean in His blood, and in that moment of absolute purity we have been made worthy, dressed in white, and praise God as we are there before His throne, but do we continue to wash our robes thereafter? Do we remain clean and pure so that we can serve God day and night in His temple?