One of the things that was a "side effect" of my appendicitis was the fact that for a period of about a year I had to wear a colostomy bag (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostomy_pouching_system for what this bag is.)
Now the bag was attached to me by a special adhesive-sort of like a caulk. Which was good, however, the only bad thing about the adhesive is that after a few days, it would become brittle and hard and begin to crack. The bad think about that is because of that, my colostomy bag would leak and I would end up with waste all over me instead of the bag. You then had to clean up the mess, replace the adhesive and get a new bag (which is not the most fun thing to do at 3:15 a.m.-either in the hospital or at home [especially if you had to wake someone up].)
So why do I mention all this? Well, a spiritual insight can be found as such:
When we come to Yeshua (Jesus) and ask Him to be our savior, we are "caulked". However through, going through our lives, the daily stresses, lack of time in the Word and prayer...our "caulk" in sense becomes hard and brittle. And because of that, our lives begin to leak and we end up with the "waste" of the world all over us and it becomes a big mess.
So we then have to have to "replace" our caulk. We do that by confessing our sins to each other and to the Lord (1 John 1:9-"If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing."-Complete Jewish Bible). And in the Lord's case praying at 3:15 a.m. in the morning is something that won't inconvenience Him. In fact I believe that it is something that He looks forward to.
And since He is trustworthy and just, He will purify us. It is a wonderful thing when He cleans us up and says that we are forgiven and cleansed.
So if your life is begin showing signs of cracking-stop and ask the Lord to repair the cracks, clean you up and replace whatever needs to be replaced. Your life will be so much the better for having done so.
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