The PERFECT Peach
Over this last week I've picked, peeled & sliced countless peaches. At times it seemed cumbersome and mundane but from time to time I would grab one from the bowl which seemed absolutely PERFECT!
By perfect I mean, not a bruise, no evidence of bugs, no holes or even a drop of sap. The coloring was bright reddish orange and as a whole was soft yet firm.
No more do I cut it in half to discard the pit and behold at the very core was mushy, brown and in some cases, molded! Gross! I might add also, these carried a foul smell from within. Of course, right, because the inside was rotten!
Thankfully, there weren't many like this. But throughout the process The Lord reminded me of the Scribes & Pharisees... Oh how the outside looked good but the inside, well, detestable!
"And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness." Luke 11:39
Moral of the story... We can do many things to make ourselves seem perfectly presentable from the outside, just as the Pharisees did. They cared not for what was down deep, the heart.
Beauty is only skin deep apart from Christ. Why? He takes out our heart of stone; which is rotten to the core, mushy, foul smelling and He gives us a NEW heart. One that's pleasing to Him, able to feel and pierceable!
His beauty radiates from the inside and by His perfection and covering, we become perfectly imperfect. In the flesh we are not, in Christ- we are!
"Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart." Psalm 44:21
No matter how we "think" we are or what others may perceive, He knows the heart, the innermost depths and cannot be fooled.
After all, Jesus said, "For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known." Luke 12:2
It's what's on the inside that counts. Ask yourself, am I rotten to the core or am I perfectly made new in Christ; new heart, new spirit, bearing good fruit?
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