During the past month, my team and I have been visiting different providences throughout China. Most of our travel days consisted of our team trekking through the streets of China with our big packs in tote. One of the main ways of travel was the subway and in order to get to the subway we had to go through metal detectors. We have probably gone through at least a million and one metal detectors! Well, that might be an exaggeration but seriously, we have been through metal detectors enough times that people probably think we have lived here for years. Each time we went through we had to take our packs off and send them through the machine with the hope that nothing in our packs set the detectors off. As you could probably piece together we didn’t get through the detectors scotch free.
I think we all know what a metal detector is. By its very definition, a metal detector is used to search for buried objects or to detect hidden weapons. The detectors find things that could be hidden in the midst of our packs that could be used to harm people later. The amount of dry shampoo that our team lost could probably stock a small convent store and so long to the pocket knives that where taken. The items that we lost had value and meaning to us. We tried to get sneaky and find new ways to get our valuables through the machine by placing them deep into our packs or using other items to help throw the machine off. With all this being said I had a crazy realization at 3am one morning.
In many ways, the use of the metal detectors is similar to the HS working in us. What we don’t seem to realize is that just as a metal detector helps protect the subway station from allowing things into the station, the HS does that in our hearts. The HS works inside each of us, revealing everything! He reveals the things in our lives that are stopping us from truly seeing the fullness of G love. Sometimes we try to push things down or try different techniques to hide our worldly pleasures, but at the end of the day the HS knows what our souls need to live fully. He reminds us of the possessions that are distracting us from growing deeper with G.
When we allow the HS to do the job that He was designed to do, we are asking him to examine our hearts. To search the depths in us and highlight the items that we value more than G. I think it’s so important to realize that when we choose to give the possessions of our heart to G instead of holding unto them tightly, we will experience the fullness of G. We will experience freedom and our load will become lighter the more we trust in G.
Till next time,
Lacy Jolene
