Who is your Indomitable Treasure?

© 2016 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Something which cannot be conquered or overcome is said to be “indomitable.”  I’ve known folks who’ve been described as indomitable.  In fact, Scripture teaches that, apart from the work of the Holy Spirit of God, man’s heart is indomitably wicked and only God can change it.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). 

People endeavor to appear friendly and “good” to others.  I had a boss that often declared “perception is everything.”  He believed that what people think of us is far more important than what we really are internally.  To him, presenting a good image was necessary to manipulate others.

Have you ever known someone who usually speaks nice, polite language, free of profanity, but, when angered, spews unfiltered filth from his or her lips?  Where does that filth come from?  The Bible tells us.

“A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh” (Luke 6:45).

No matter how hard we try to hide our inner spirits, they tend to be indomitable.  When our guard is down, or our emotions are stirred, what’s truly inside will escape.

God the Son, Jesus Christ, died, rose, and ascended to heaven to save His people from their sins.  If you are to become one of His people, His Holy Spirit must quicken you (make you alive).  Speaking to saved people, the Apostle Paul wrote,

“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;” (Ephesians 2:1).

If God’s Holy Spirit has quickened you, you will be genuinely changed on the inside.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Scripture encourages us to examine the reality of what we are internally.

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Corinthians 13:5). 

Has Christ’s indomitable Holy Spirit become the good treasure of your heart, or are you still unsaved and controlled by evil treasure?

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