The Inside
And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22:17
The invitation to come is spoken to anyone who would listen. To hear his call, though, we have to cultivate a desire to drink from the pure river of the water of life. Sadly, too often we are so busy with the daily grind of life and pursuing other desires that we forget to pursue the true water that will nourish our soul.
God invites you to His table.
While God invites us to His banquet table for food, more often than not, the table that God invites us to is an operating table. It’s not about what we bring with us to the table or what food we can get for our nourishment and pleasure. The table is a place for us to surrender control of our inward part to the skilled hands of the Great Surgeon. The greatest gift that God offers us is to renew our life by changing us from the inside.
If you don’t win inside, you don’t win outside.
It doesn’t matter how much we work out and how well our skin looks if we are full of cancer and dying below the surface. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.” (Matthew 23:25-26). If we let God change us from the inside, we can learn to produce fruit on the outside.
The audio has to match the video.
Once God puts our circuit board together correctly, we are made ready to produce a godly outcome. If God wires us correctly—and no doubt He can and will—then we will display a cohesive message. If our message is not cohesive, the problem isn’t in the display or the speakers, the problem is in the internal wiring. If we have the source of a good story flowing through us in our wiring, we will have a good story to show.
Accept God’s invitation to drink from His river, which can heal you from the inside, and as your inside becomes new, you will have a good, new message to show.