ahhh! there's a wasp in my car!

Driving home from Lake Geneva yesterday with the windows down, wind blowing through my hair and me loving every moment.  All of a sudden I look to my driver's door and I see a wasp - not just a bee - a wasp.  I was stung by a bee for the first time last year and let me say - that was painful and not fun at all!  So I see this wasp, I'm driving 55+ miles/hour on a country road and trying to play with the window so it flies out.  I don't want to be stung by this thing and I'm getting a little on edge.  So I pull over into the next gas station and yell at it - "Go! Get out!" and it flies away.  Whew! much better.

Then I felt the Lord say that was prophetic and He began to speak to me about why we as Christians, myself included, are not as vigilant when it comes to sin, temptation, or an evil spirit trying to mess with us. Sin still stings us and others and most importantly grieves the heart of God and keeps our spirits asleep... so why do we let sin drive in our car with us, live in our hearts, or hang out at our house. To have the eyes to see and to have a holy NO and say Go and Get out! I don't want you here - it's so freeing to take authority as we are in Christ.  To see sin and temptation as it really is - it may cloak itself as something pleasurable for the moment but it really is out to destroy us and bring death.  Wasps hanging around in our hearts, in our relationships, in our home, and in those we love - not cool.

May we love God even more and be in awe of Him. May we love others and love ourselves with a love that is from above and may we not let the 'wasps' hang out and think it's no big deal... We are the temple of the Holy Spirit - where God dwells and may we hunger to know God to the fullest and be brought to life more and more. May we be hungry for Your Word, Your Truth and Your Revelation so that we can be free-er and wholly Yours.

Give us undivided hearts to be in AWE of you God and love you with ALL of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.  Wake us up from compromise - We need more of Your light to shine in and through us - Encounter our hearts with your purifying Love.