Clean or Unclean?

'No Lord!' I said, 'For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!' But a voice answered from heaven a second time, 'What God has made clean, you must not call unclean.' Acts 11: 8,9

This scripture really became alive to me when I had someone close to me say 'Don't get involved with that person, I know things about him.' and God spoke to my heart 'What God has called clean you must not call unclean.'

We can be so prejudiced against others because of their past, the way they look or the way they come across yet God knows their hearts.

Conversely we can be open to people who really are not clean in their hearts and are dangerous to us. I remember a woman in my church in Tamworth who married a guy because he looked good and went to a particular church only to find he was a drunk and he abused her.

We can, not like someone because they are on the opposite side to us, perhaps they are actually in charge of making a judgement for or against us, yet what do they really stand for? What is the truth?

We can expect those who are close to us to behave a certain way, support us in a way that makes us feel safe, yet at times they don't and we feel all alone. We need to discover why they are not there instead of making a judgement about their behaviour.

In all these things I have to go to God. 'What do You say Lord?'

My bible  tells me I must guard my heart and so I must realise I cannot truly expect that because I believe a person should behave in a certain way that they will. My experience tells me everybody will let me down at some stage because they are not on the same page as me at every moment of my life, only God will never let me down.

I have to be careful to lean on His breast, so to speak, at all times because I really need to know how He sees things and how He is working in my life. He works all things out for my good. Amen!