Limescale remover

I don't know about you, but we live in a hard water area.  Every few weeks or so, despite using a filter jug, we have to descale the kettle because it begins to be coated with limescale. It doesn't stop the kettle from working; we can still make tea, but the water begins to taste a bit funny, and if we leave it too long, bits of limescale drop off into our coffee, which is totally unappealing to me.    

I suppose that if we left it long enough, the kettle would become less efficient, and it would take longer to boil, which would eventually reduce its usefulness. 

Sometimes our hearts can be like a kettle.  If we allow the world in without allowing the filter of the Word to guide us, and washing of the Holy Spirit to clean us, they can become a little spiritually limescaled, too.   It doesn't stop us from being Christians; it doesn't stop God from loving us; it doesn't negate his promises, and we can still go on serving him, but there's just something that begins to taste funny, and if we ignore it, over time we will find ourselves less effective in the Kingdom of God.  Left long enough, we can simply slip away from putting God first and loving him with all that we are, and we become less aware of his voice, his guidance and his love to us.

So what might the 'limescale' be?  It's what we pour into our 'kettle' (heart); gossip, too much TV, movies or music that are not godly, murmuring and complaining, that sort of thing.

Proverbs 4:23 (NLT) tells us that we need to:
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

Today's thought is short, but simple: make sure you regularly descale your heart (through the Word and by the Spirit) to keep it open to his love and voice. Life will taste better that way.