The color of your heart

What is the color of your heart? Is it stained and dirty or is it white as snow?I really like the pastor's message this morning, he was discussing purity in what ways we can stay pure and he gave us an illustration that really stuck with me!

This is a picture of an Ermine.




It is normally found in the northern parts of the US, the more cold regions. And what makes this animal so unique is the fact that during the spring/summer it stays brown with a white underbelly and then during the winter it is completely white to blend with the snow. It's fur is so unique that it was often hunted and during the middle ages was used to make clothing out of. The Ermine is so protective about it's pure white fur that it would stay away from anything or anyone that would dirty it's pure white fur. Hunters would go to their dens and make the whole entrance dirty because they knew that the Ermine would not enter it's den because it would not risk dirting it's white fur. It would rather sacrifice his life to the hunter than ruin it's purity!

Think about that! If we as Christians acted like the Ermine, that we were so concerned about our own purity that we would rather sacrifice our own lives than compromise our purity then we would be such a powerful servant for Christ.

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