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Understanding Purity in Service
Relfect on the call to purity, inspired by Christian missionary Jackie Pullinger who re… (visit YouTube for more)
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Jackie Pullinger, the Christian missionary, is famous for being able to associate with prostitutes and drug addicts and not herself be in any way corrupted by these things. How did she do it? How could she stay pure whilst fulfilling her mission from God?
Today we meditate on Titus chapter one, verse 15. To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
If somebody is impure and they are approached by a godly person, their tendency is to reject that godly person. They can’t accept it. To them, the purity of that other person appears as impurity, something they don’t want in their lives.
And for us as Christians, the reverse can be true, that what to others may look to be impurity doesn’t trouble us because God has given us love and the power to overcome darkness so that we can reach out to those who are currently languishing in darkness, whose lives are disordered in chaos, in difficulty, in sin.
This is not us approaching anyone with a holier than thou attitude. This is purely us being protected in our minds, our hearts, and our spirits, by the word of God, by the righteousness of Christ that covers us when we accept Jesus and all that he did for us. And when we repent of our own sin.
And to remain pure, then we should be careful about what we are taking into our minds, our spirits, our bodies. What are we meditating on? What are we consuming? Are we seeking to remain pure whilst remaining on our mission into the ungodly world?
There’s a comfort and a challenge in this verse, and it definitely bears more than two minutes of meditation. Maybe spend some more time praying and seeking God, and asking for the Holy Spirit to instruct you in how this verse applies directly to you in your life and in your work for him.
