Spiritual Heart Surgery: The Purification Process

I’ve never had physical surgery, unless being sown back together after giving birth counts. It wasn’t a C-section, they had to cut my flower because my daughter’s head was so big.

I feel that I am undergoing a spiritual heart surgery now. Who says living as a Christian is a soft life? That’s far from the truth. Choosing a lifestyle that goes directly against the world you live in is the hardest lifestyle to choose.

Right now, God is upsetting my world! This means that he’s changing things in me, and cleansing the things in my life that were dirty. I thought this process would feel like rainbows and sunshine. But the purification process requires heat.

When gold is being cleansed of impurities, it has to be put in the fire so that it can be melted down. Once it is melted, the impurities are then scraped off of the surfaces and the gold is cooled back down. Similar to surgery, you have to be cut, something gets fixed, then you are mended back together.

This is how it feels when you choose to live in obedience to God. When we choose God after living a life of sin, He has to perform some heart surgery. There are things we don’t understand that are in us that didn’t come from Him. These things came from trauma and we mistake them as our personality. He has to put us under the knife or fire, to bring those impurities to the surface so that He can scrape those things away.

This process is painful, and at the same time purposeful. I have noticed that as I have gotten closer to God, I have become more sensitive than I was. I didn’t understand that what was actually happening is the purification process. The hard shell that was on my heart is falling off.

It’s tough, but it’s worth it!