Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Spring Cleaning

Spring cleaning used to be a standard event in most homes. About the same time we took the storm windows down (remember those?), we would clean the house from top to bottom and get rid of some of the less-than-useful stuff that had accumulated. Spring cleaning was always hard work, but when it was over we had a sense of satisfaction. It was easier to get things done, and to feel good about ourselves, once the dust settled.

Is it perhaps about time for some spring cleaning in our lives? Are there some habits, perhaps some time-wasting activities, which we ought to banish from our lives? Is it time to open the windows of our minds and let more of the fresh air of God’s love into our lives?

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. 21 Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. (2 Timothy 2:20-21, ESV)

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (James 4:7-8, ESV)

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, 12 training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works. (Titus 2:11-14, ESV)

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