One thing that I was taught while growing up was the importance of being sweet. Many of you women had the same experience. Girls should be sweet and kind, not loud or rude, they told us. After all, “sugar and spice and everything nice”– isn’t that what little girls are made of?
“In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ” Colossians 2:11 NASB What a precious truth it is to know that Scripture clearly teaches true religion is not external but internal—wrought in the heart by the powerful work of the Holy Spirit. It is He who brings about real and lasting transformation in the soul of the one whom God is saving, changing them from the inside out. As described in Colossians 2, this divine work softens hearts once hardened by sin, awakening spiritual sensitivity and conviction. The Holy Spirit brings the law to bear upon the heart, exposing hidden sin and revealing our deep need for a Savior. Through this gracious wounding, He prepares the soul to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer.
I remember one morning when I was in elementary school, I woke to the usual scent of some delicious breakfast baking in the oven. Blueberry muffins, maybe. I walked into the kitchen, and instead of seeing my mom on her usual perch at the edge of a kitchen chair, drinking her coffee, I could see her lying on her bed in the next room, pale and looking exhausted.
“But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.” 1 Thessalonians 5:8 NASBS
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