Cleansing
A young criminal, inmate of jail L...., attempted to commit suicide because he could't bear to continue living in despair. One day a prison chaplain visited the inmates and this young man ran after him and asked him, 'Can you take the brain out of my head and wash it clean of all the wicked thoughts which continually prompt me to do evil?'
The man of God answered' It is not necessary to have such an operation. It would not bring about any change. However, I know another means of mental purification'. The wretched inmate replied,
'What is that? 'Take this book, study it carefully in faith and your thoughts will be purified. Millions of people, throughout the ages have tried this method and found healing'. Having said that, he gave the young inmate a Bible and added, 'In a week's time I will visit you and you will tell   
me what has happened.
The young inmate began reading the Bible and it was not long before he committed his life to Christ. Next time the chaplain visited him the young inmate was full of joy and comfort of soul. 'Truly', he said, 'I see my mind being refined from the evil thoughts. Christ has filled me with His power which strengthens me and gives me light'.
If you want your mind to be cleansed and your body to be freed from its passions and be subject to your thoughts, and if you want to see the things of this world as they really are know that Christ is the only One who can set you free from the bondage if sin. Read the Bible. In it you will learn that Christ can set you free and you will be free indeed., because Christ came to seek and to save those who were lost (Matt.18:11).

Cultured or Converted
We come into the Kingdom of God, not through evolution, but by revolution. There are some who feel that they can become part of the Kingdom by exposing themselves week by week to the activities of the Christian Church and its teaching-Salvation by Osmosis. A friend of mine calls such people 'cultured Christians'. They have all the appearance of being genuine children of God, but they have never personally undergone the life-changing experience which the Bible calls conversion.
Why is it that so many struggle against Christ's insistence on repentance as being the first prerequisite to the
Kingdom of God? Is it not that the first instinctive reaction of the human heart is to raise up barriers against
an intruder? Christ demands to be admitted on His own terms in our lives, and this, of course, runs diametrically opposite to the self-centred instinct which lies deep within our beings. We struggle to preserve our ego intact, and avoid anything that challenges the pride principle that has entwined itself about our nature.
We fear 'lest having Him we have naught else beside'.
Let there be no doubt about it-the only way into the Kingdom of God is when we repent out sin, and allow God to bring us into His Kingdom by the miracle of Conversion. And what is Conversion? Someone has defined it as 'The change, sudden or gradual, by which we pass from the kingdom of self into the Kingdom of God'. May I sincerely ask whether this has happened to you?                   Skepsis

He who abides in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, 'He is my fortress,

my God. In Him I will trust.'

Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.

He shall cover you with His feathers and under His wings you shall take refuge.

His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night

Nor of the arrow that flies by day.

Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness.

Nor of the destruction that walks in darkness. Nor of the destruction that lays at noonday

A thousand may fall at your side And ten thousand at your right hand. But it shall not come nigh you.

Only with your eyes shall you look and see the reward of the wicked.      Ps.91