Soft and Pliable

Good Morning Folks! Let me begin this morning by saying that I am so thankful for the sweetness of HIS WORD to my heart. I am thankful that HE leads my heart around in HIS WORD and then HE tenderly brings me back to a place where HE has something to show me. We've moved around this morning. HE has been so sweet and so tender with my heart. Let's look at Psalm 37:4 together for just a minute.
Delight yourself in the LORD and HE will give you the desires of your heart.
That is very likely a familiar verse to you. It is most likely a place that, like me, you have been many times in your Christian life. When I began my time this morning with the LORD JESUS I told HIM that I want to see something fresh and new today. I asked HIM to REVIVE my heart. Like I said, we went to many different places this morning and HE assured my heart that HIS tenderness toward me today is great, and then we went back to Psalm 37 and verse 4. Maybe you have asked yourself what does it mean to DELIGHT MYSELF IN THE LORD? I've asked that question many times. This morning I reached for my Strongs Concordance and looked up the word delight. I'm sure that I've done this before, but today it really struck a chord in my heart. The word delight here means to be soft or pliable.
Stop for a minute and ponder that. Think about what the HOLY SPIRIT is trying to say to your own heart right now. You see, for me, it was VERY CLEAR. The words soft and pliable are not words that I would use to describe Vicky to you, BUT I so want to be the woman that GOD wants me to be. I WANT to be soft and pliable in HIS HANDS. HE said to my heart VERY CLEARLY, "Vicky, my precious child, IF you will be soft and pliable in MY HAND, THEN I WILL grant you the petition that you are earnestly requesting." HE wants to grant my petition, but FIRST I must bow in submission before HIM and be SOFT and PLIABLE.
My heart has a propensity toward being hard and crusty. Jeremiah 17:9 says that MY heart is desperately wicked and decietful. My cry this morning before my ABBA FATHER, MY DADDY is simply that HE would create within the walls of my chest and heart that is so tender toward HIM that it will disolve the hard crustiness of Vicky and will be SOFT AND PLIABLE in the HANDS OF A TENDER SAVIOR. You see folks, HE ONLY HAS THE BEST IN MIND FOR US. My prayer today is that I will choose to die to my own desires and to my hard crustiness and will yield my heart to the TENDERNESS of JESUS.
O HOLY FATHER, MAKE ME WHAT I CAN ONLY BE IN YOU TODAY. I KNOW THAT ON MY OWN "SOFT AND PLIABLE" WOULD NEVER APPLY TO ME, BUT YOUR WORD IS CLEAR THAT I AM DEAD AND YOU ARE ALIVE IN ME. LORD JESUS, MY PRAYER THIS MORNING IS THAT YOU WOULD CHIP AWAY THE HARD CRUSTY PLACES AND WOULD REPLACE THEM WITH SOFT PLIABLE TISSUE THAT YOU CAN USE FOR YOUR OWN GLORY. MAKE ME WHO I CAN NEVER BE, BUT WHO ONLY YOU CAN BE THROUGH ME. O JESUS, I LOVE YOU. AMEN