Heart Of Alabaster

 The word alabaster is defined as: “A smooth, usually white and nearly transparent gypsum used for carving (as vases).” Your heart is a translucent vase for the Lord to reside in. It is very precious and fragile to him. He desires that we are aware of how special it is, and tells us to guard it! (Proverbs 4:23) In the definition described above, it says, “used for carving.” This heart we have needs constant tending to because of the challenges of life and the spiritual warfare we endure for the sake of following Jesus. He desires for us to understand that he is the artisan of our hearts. His craftsmanship is unmatched! Although our hearts are not white physically, when we allow the artisan of our hearts to come and dwell with his masterpiece, it becomes white spiritually. (Purity) 

I want to emphasize that our hearts only become pure when the artisan of our hearts comes in and dwells with what he has taken time to make. In Psalm 139 verse 13, David said, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” In verses 15 & 16, he goes on to say, “My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.” “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” David had a deep revelation here in this psalm about who God is; he embraced it, and then it exuded out of him. It was his worship! When we digest what and who God is, it becomes a worship that is real and profound. It becomes who you are! You are worship! But to become TRUE worship, the artisan of our hearts must come in and do what only he can, and that is to begin to perfect our beautiful hearts of alabaster. Most of us have heard the verse quoted so many times that “deep calls unto deep” (Psalm 47:7), the psalmist was writing about how desperate they were for God. It was everything in them that was yearning for the master artisan. Deep calls unto deep is a beckoning call for the master to come. It is a sound wave that surpasses and supersedes the depths of hell and divinely connects you to heaven and implores it to respond to your alabaster heart. John 4:23-24 “ Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. “For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” I pray that this has awakened a deeper understanding of the necessity of God in our lives and that we all would embrace the indwelling of the Master artisan of our hearts of alabaster, so that we can become true worship, a sweet aroma in the nostrils of our great God, Jesus Christ.