PINATA REVEALS THE TRUTH

   This week we spent several days making piñata.  Therefore it doesn't surprise me that it was one of the choices for doing a devotion.

   The first step to building a piñata is to blow a balloon up.  This balloon represents our heart.  It is soft and pliable.  The balloon will blow in the direction you blow it and when our heart is soft the same is true.  When the Holy Spirit moves in our lives then we are willing to go where he tells us. 

   Each day we would mix flour and water to make a paste.  We would soak a piece of newspaper in the flour and water until it was gummy.  One piece at a time we would place the newspaper strips onto the balloon.  The newspaper tells of all the things in this world and how we allow others to influence us to do some of the things that are written on the pages. 

   At first the balloon was still soft and pliable.  The next day we would go through the same process of dipping the newspaper into the gummy flour and adding it to the balloon. 

   The second day the balloon was still soft and pliable. 

   The third day we added another layer of wet gummy newspapers to the balloon and set it outside to dry. 

   The fourth day, we walked outside and suddenly we could see a change in our pliable balloon.  It was no longer soft.  The balloon was now hard.  It was amazing at how hard it had become.  When we hit it with our hands it actually hurt our hand. 

   The balloon that once was easily directed with just our breath had now become impossible to move when we blew air onto it. 

   As we are going through life we need to make sure that we do not allow people to put all the filth from the world into our hearts.

   We may not even realize that our hearts are getting harder and harder every time we allow the worldly things to enter in. 

   One day we will wake up and realize that we have allow ourselves to be hardened.  When the Lord tries to speak to us, we can't even hear him.  There is only one way to get our hearts back to where it needs to be. 

    A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God .I will also save you from all your uncleanness: (Ezekiel 36:26-29)