The Power of Purity

MANPOWER

The Power of Purity

Psalm 119:9 “How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your Word.”

I was heading out for a surf the other morning, and I just couldn’t believe my eyes. The beach was strewn with rubbish as far as the eye could see! A veritable waterline-in-the-sand of garbage! The surf was operating, but the contrast was staggering. I stood stunned, suspended somewhere between a desire to go’n play in the beautiful waves, and a deep paralysing concern for the filth on the beach. I was disturbed.

I paddled out next to the pier, and as I was approaching backline, this fisherman hooked something huge, and began to haul with all his might. (It’s always exciting to watch a “big fish” fight, and get landed!) But, don’t you know it, he had hooked a huge, waterlogged blanket! He was disappointed; the crowd was disappointed; and I was disappointed that that kind of stuff was washing up on our beach.

Not far up from where I was surfing, is a river outlet, and clearly, some people upstream continue to dump all their junk into the river.

It got me thinking about what we allow to “stream” into our world. How the garbage we dump into our souls is going to wash up somewhere. And boy, it’s disappointing. We think we’re “big fish”, but we’ve got about as much fight left in us as a wet blanket! Our children are suspended between a desire to play with daddy, and a deep concern for why he seems to be foaming at the mouth! Jude 1:13 describes disguised dudes like this as, “wild ocean waves leaving nothing on the beach but the foam of their shame; Lost stars in outer space on their way to the black hole.”

But, somewhere in all of this shameful, lost mess, God the Holy Spirit, in His loving mercy, will not “let us off the hook”. He wants us to get “hooked up” with the right guys, so that He can pull the garbage out of us, and clean up our act, before we get all washed up!

Talking about “Gatekeepers of Purity” in our “MANHUNT” is hardly “bait on a hook” for a guy – I know that. It sound more like someone is trying to rain on your party. But I’m not here for your vote - I’m trying to find men who have enough fight left in them to draw line in the sand, and be rescued, before they leave us all “gutted”!

Are you hooked on Jesus yet?