The Sword of the Lord....

An examination of ones self is always difficult. We usually want to ignore the things that need paid attention to that are hindering us. They can be painful revelations. I have found myself there. In need of some "spiritual surgery". A call to take up the sword of the Lord and go to work. The sword of the Lord...conjures up a thought of battle, huh? I guess that fits too but I need it to cut away the things that bind me to sinful ways. I need it in excising those who are stumbling blocks in my walk. I need it to seperate me from what I want so I can get to what I need. It's righteous blade is the only tool precise enough to do the job. Surgery can be painful but the healing depends on it. The "great physician" needs to pay me a house call. It is painful to realize that you are at an impass where some people and things have become like a growth that is feeding off of you and draining you. Making you unhealthy. Poisoning you. The closer the relationship, the deeper the cut. The more attached and dependent you are on something,the bigger the scar. My desire to be what God wants me to be requires that I take up that sword. Regardless of how painful it can or will be. Am I courageous enough to use it? What is more valuable to me, these things or Him? What am I willing to remove to let that happen? What has become a blockage to having the relationship I desire? I pray I have the discernment it requires. (Hebrews 12:1) ~ "one of the sheep"