"For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show Himself strong in behalf of those whose hearts are blameless toward Him." 2 Chronicles 16:9 AMP
I am a fan of the old comic strip ‘Charlie Brown’. I am particularly fond of the character called Pig-Pen. It seems that Pig-Pen, true to his name, is always shuffling through the neighborhood in rolling clouds of dust and haze. His face is dirty, his hair is messy and his clothes are slightly tattered and torn. Pig Pen is just his nickname. I don’t believe his friends ever call him by a specific real name; he’s just Pig-Pen. In the comic strip, even when Pig-Pen bathes and becomes squeaky-clean and then steps outside, he magically becomes dirty again! He has even said, “I guess I’m just a dust magnet’.
To me, the Pig-Pen character is more than a simple messy-kid story. It is just one of life’s ‘dirty little secrets’. That secret is: If you play in the 'dirt', you will get dirty! If you stand near a societal ‘mud pit party’, you will eventually-- magically get a mud pie flung in your direction!
As much as we might deny it, we are living in a dirty world; a modern day Babylon. It’s been globally washed once. Those sole survivors disembarked and almost magnetically, like Pig-Pen, ‘got dirty’ again! We TRY to stay clean but there’s all this… well, dust, dirt and some very "attractive" moments/things that just seems to be magically attracted to us. I’ve noticed that there is ‘good dirt’ and there is ‘bad dirt’. We can get dirty for the ‘right reasons’ and we can get dirty for ‘wrong reasons’.
As much as we might deny it, we are living in a dirty world; a modern day Babylon. It’s been globally washed once. Those sole survivors disembarked and almost magnetically, like Pig-Pen, ‘got dirty’ again! We TRY to stay clean but there’s all this… well, dust, dirt and some very "attractive" moments/things that just seems to be magically attracted to us. I’ve noticed that there is ‘good dirt’ and there is ‘bad dirt’. We can get dirty for the ‘right reasons’ and we can get dirty for ‘wrong reasons’.
God is looking for opportunities to “show Himself strong in the Earth”. He is looking for people “whose hearts are blameless toward Him”. Open your heart to Christ, and ask for His forgiveness. By making THAT simple request, you have been cleansed! He then gives you a blameless heart. YOU are the person the Lord is seeking! Understand the fact that God LONGS to work in YOUR life! As He does, YOUR faith and hope will increase. God's work in your life will increase! God has heavenly spiritual soap that cleans dirty hearts and can clean the oldest and most stubborn stained of souls.
You probably don't realize it but "Pig-Pen" last appeared in the Peanuts comic strip on September 8, 1999. That strip was very uncharacteristic of him. It showed him embarrassed to the point of shame in his dirtiness, with none of the pride or sense of destiny that he expressed in earlier strips. Pig Pen tells us a story from an artist that sketched dusty pictures from a pen-to-paper. Your origin had a dusty earthy start as well, but you were formed from the hand of the Great Illustrator, given breath from the Creator and a clean start. We are ALL dusty and dirty. We SHOULD be ashamed! Ask God to renew your heart today! Have confidence that God seeks to create a clean heart in YOU. You WILL get dusty today but God is ready! Ask Him!
Thank God for giving you a clean and blameless heart; for choosing to work in YOU. As you thank and praise Him, expect Him to act and to see Him move mightily on your behalf in every area of your life! ~PRAY!
