It is not enough to be saved or saved, the mouth, the way of speaking, must also prove it. This is part of the process to which the apostle Paul refers when he says: Realize your own salvation.
¿What exactly does it mean to realize our salvation?
In Ephesians 2: 8-9, Paul, who wrote this phrase to the Philippians, clearly stated that salvation can not be earned, that it is given by the grace of God and that we receive it through faith; that it is not a reward for good works, so that no one can boast, Without some understanding, these two passages of Philippians may seem contradictory.
The new birth, the sending of his Son Jesus Christ to live in us, giving us His Holy Spirit and creating in us a new heart, is something that only He can do for His grace, mercy, love and kindness. He does all the work and we receive the free gift of Faith.
Realizing the salvation that he has given us for free is exactly another phase of our walk with Him. We could say that He deposits a seed in us, and that we then cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit so that that seed grows and becomes a plant that occupies all our life.
The Bible refers to Jesus Christ as "The Seed." The term seed or seed, means that if I have a seed, I can have a harvest.
Jesus is the Seed of all the good that God wants us to have. It is God who plants the seed, but it is we who should cultivate it, feed it, water it and take care of it. The ground in which it is planted must be plowed and furrowed, and kept free of weeds.
Our hearts and our lives are the terrain. Everything that must be changed or removed in it can not be done at the same time. It is a job and only the Holy Spirit knows the "When and how" appropriate to do it. While working in us on certain matters, we must submit our will to Him, which means to subject the flesh to the guidance and direction of the Spirit. If any of us would like to return to the starting point of our walk with God, and make an inventory of all the things that have changed in his life, he would be surprised at the difference between what he was then and what he is now.
When God wants to use something, surely the devil tries to steal it. When called to teach or preach the word of God, Satan is always pushing for the Lord's property.
When we read these verses we know that we have a way to go, he reveals that we have to do something with our mouths, our words before we can use them as we had planned.
God called Jeremiah "a prophet of the nations," and immediately he began to say what God had not told him to say.
The Lord had to straighten his mouth, put him to speak the right thing, before he could use it. And it will not be different with us.
First, we must understand that when God calls us to do something, we should not say that we can not do it. If God says we can, we can! We often express our insecurities, verbalize what someone else has previously said about us, or what the devil has not said.
We need to say about us, what God has said about us!
Jesus said: I do not speak to you my own words, but the words of the one who sent me. I only say what I have heard my Father say (John 8:28)
God calls us to a higher level. He challenges us not to continue saying our own words. He wants us to speak, not what is in our soul, but in our spirit.
God is preparing His people to use it in the harvest of the final time. But nobody has ever been used without preparation. That means that God has to deal with us, and that we must submit and be submissive to His Work in us.
God wants to "tune us up". He has been working in our life, generally speaking for years, but this is the time for some precise final adjustments. These words are not a new revelation, it may happen that we are taking certain liberties that can no longer be allowed.
God calls us to a new higher level, and at each new level of the Blessings and power of God, we face new obstacles.
We must understand that the wrong words can open doors to the enemy we do not want to open.
Whatever Jeremiah was doing previously, he was not as aggressive against the kingdom of darkness as God intended.
It is true that in our lives, God will have to deal with matters that I overlook. We can not walk in the flesh until we begin to exercise our ministerial gift, and then quickly walk in the Spirit. There will be no power or anointing released or transmitted through such a life.
Then we see in the story of Jeremiah how God tells him to do in His Word, be fire in his mouth and people like firewood.
That will not happen to us if we allow a mixture of words in our mouths. We may never experience complete perfection in this area, but it is time to look for it in a more serious way.
Generally, when something is asked of God, there are things that we must remove from the path so that what we have asked for arrives.
When God called him to be his spokesman before Pharaoh and the Israelites, Moses complained that he was not eloquent enough to do what God asked of him because he had a vocal problem.
God's response was: ...Who gave man his mouth? ... Am I not, Lord? (Exodus 4:11)
Sometimes we think that God does not know everything about our weaknesses, but he does know.
In verse 12 God said to Moses: Now, then, go, I will be in your mouth and I will teach you what you will speak.
The next time God asks you to be your spokesperson and fear arise within you remember: if He sends you, He will be with your mouth and teach you what to say.
The call of Isaiah is an excellent example of God's need to cleanse his mouth before using man.
This biblical passage teaches us that when we approach the presence of the Lord, He works in us.
In this case Isaiah understood that he had an unclean mouth. The cry of his heart was for a change and God sent His help.
The arrival of the Seraphim like a burning coal is recorded here as an instantaneous event, but it does not always happen that way with us, we would all prefer the miraculous liberation, but I believe that in most cases the Lord should make us pass through a cleaning process.
What we need to assimilate from these verses is the principle that is established in them.
Verse 7 states that Isaiah's sin was forgiven; therefore, we can deduce that his unclean mouth was sinful, and that as such it should be treated.
Then in verse 8 the call of Isaiah. God told him: ...who will go for us? And Isaiah answered: Here I am, send me. His heart was willing to serve the Lord; As He knew it He guided Him to His Presence
God always looks for someone who has a perfect heart for Him, not necessarily someone who has a performance or a perfect record before Him. When the Lord, the owner of someone's heart, can always change that person's behavior.
This should encourage and encourage those who wish to be used by the Lord, but feel that they have too many shortcomings. God uses broken pots! We come to the Lord as we are and He molds us and makes us useful vessels for His use (Isaiah 6: 8; 2 Timothy 2:21)
After Isaiah's mouth was cleansed, God told him in verse 9: Go and tell this people. The call, the anointing and the commission, sometimes occur individually and even in different periods of time.
God calls us and anoints us, but that anointing increases as we gain experience in the ministry and is submitted to the work of the Holy Spirit in the soul. He shocks and sends to build His Kingdom only after having established the proper bases or foundations.
If you want to build the Kingdom of God, you must take time to lay the proper foundation. And putting your mouth in line is one of the first steps to establish that foundation.
Jeremiah, Moses, and Isaiah, all understood that God had to change some things from their mouths, if they were going to fulfill the divine call.
And this is valid for all of us.
God will heal our mouths but before we do we must be aware that we need healing. Jesus said that it is the truth that liberates us. And this is the truth that we need to say to the Lord: "My mouth is saved!