This morning as I took my shower I noticed that the soap I used to keep me clean was not just any old soap, not just shower gel, it offered much much more, in fact it was shower therapy. This was a shower which was not just going to clean me but was going to heal me. When  stepped out from behind that curtain how was I going to feel, happy, peaceful, whole? 

Well of course except for the fresh smell of lemon, the me who stepped out from the shower was no different, still my old bad habits, still my old problems, nothing different. There are lots of products now which offer us therapy , foods which will heal us, clothes which will bring us happiness, cars which will solve our problems and technology which will change our lives.But the marketing men and indeed ourselves know that they won't make any difference to the real us.

 

For real change to happen , it has to start from within us, as Max Lucado writes in his book "When God whispers your name" "the heart of the matter is and always will be the heart of the matter" for only God can help us change from the inside out.

 

"Create in me a new heart, O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me" Psalm 51 vs 10