30 Days of Purity

It's really dawning on me this year. Life is dawning on me. A flurry of things are dawning on me. I'm starting to realize how short life is. I'm beginning to understand how important every decision is. I'm realizing how often my life has been lived for me right now as opposed to a life lived for the Father and eternity. And maybe it's these moments of my life, the short number of years I've been alive, that have gotten me thinking about how I can give one-hundred percent to Jesus. In looking back on what I have accomplished up to this point in my own existence, I wonder how much of it has been done with a skewed perspective. Even the things I hold as moments that I'm proud of are just vanity if the purity of God is not covering them. It's that very thought that is inspiring me to write this. My being so much desires to please God with who I am. I want to honor Him not just with my lips, but with my life. It was while on vacation this year that I really felt compelled to start writing a book. I had a vague idea of what I was supposed to write about, but how do you convey the heart for purity? I may be crazy in thinking this, but I feel that the majority of Christians really do want to please God with a life that's pure. But outside of the obvious things (i.e., avoiding lustful thoughts, actions, and deeds), how do you do that? I really had to start thinking about that question. What does a life of purity really entail at its core? Thankfully, while I sit typing in human weakness, the Holy Spirit is speaking in perfect wisdom. If we are giving credit where it's honestly due, then this book should have a large “Dictated by the Spirit of God” on the front of it because at the end of the day, He knows purity in a level that I have never known it. As I've been putting His words onto paper, I've been astonished at how little my life has reflected His purity so far. I feel like I have been seeking it. I feel like I have been trying. Yet, there is so much I just have never understood about it. Maybe that's the real issue that most of us face. We really want to believe that as long as our mind isn't thinking impure thoughts, that we are pure. My brothers and sisters in Christ, if that is you, I cannot wait to share with you what the Spirit is speaking so that you, just like I, can have your mind expanded and get a large picture view of the life of purity that God so desperately wants for His children. Will you take thirty days with me? Just take this next month and let yourself be transformed. That's what the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are after, I believe. They want very much for the bride of Christ that you and I are to be transformed and perfected into something pure and beautiful. I pray that you are as changed as I have been by the words and insight of our Creator. So if you're ready, let's take a journey together. Let's journey into the very heart of our Creator.....into the heart of purity.

Joseph Papcun