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Spiritual Housekeeping

// July 21st, 2012 // Meditations

Bruce Dewey – Elder at the Lenoir City Seventh Day Adventist Church

“Beth,” Mom called from the kitchen, “will you vacuum the living room floor while I finish getting dinner ready. Dad will be home soon and I have a couple of things to finish up in here.”

“But Mom, you just vacuumed the floor Monday. This is only Wednesday. It surely can’t be that dirty already. At least it doesn’t look like it to me.”

“You may not be able to see the dirt, but if you empty the canister before you vacuum you will see what I mean.”

“O K Mom,” Beth answered.

Even more important than keeping the floors clean we need to ask God to clean our spiritual house on a daily basis, and to “cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9 (KJV)

No matter how good our intentions are, we are unable to cleanse our spiritual house on our own, as we read in Jeremiah 13:23 (NIV). Here God asks,”Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard its spots?” Then He says, “Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.”

Like David we also need to ask God to “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 (KJV)