I have been in the process of doing some cleaning and work around my home. One of the projects I tackled was cleaning the bathroom. We all know how much fun this is. I started working on the shower with one cleaning product, but had to change to change to another when it ran out. The second was a bleach based cleaner.
A few hours later, I was reminded of this passage from Matthew 23:27-28.
Friends, it's time that we do some cleaning. Each one of us who has been freed from the bondage of sin by the blood of Jesus Christ still finds ourselves wrestling with those sins which so easily entangle us. We all fall prey to hypocrisy. Christ wants more for us, and He offers it by the power of His Holy Spirit.
Perhaps you have not ever heard how much God loves you. We are coming up on that time when, each year, we remember and celebrate the great lengths that He went to in order to show His love while we were still sinners. Feel free to contact me or find a local pastor: we want to share this incredible love story with you.
May the God who has given His all to redeem us be honored today in our thoughts and actions.
A few hours later, I was reminded of this passage from Matthew 23:27-28.
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and all kinds of filth. So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."We like things to look clean. But looking clean and being clean are two different things. Our hearts and minds are easily deceived, and we find ourselves thinking and even doing things that we know we should not. In his letter to the Romans, Paul asked the church if we should keep sinning so that grace may abound. His answer was a resounding "No!"- if through Christ we have died to sin, why would we want to continue in it (Romans 6:1-12)?
Friends, it's time that we do some cleaning. Each one of us who has been freed from the bondage of sin by the blood of Jesus Christ still finds ourselves wrestling with those sins which so easily entangle us. We all fall prey to hypocrisy. Christ wants more for us, and He offers it by the power of His Holy Spirit.
Perhaps you have not ever heard how much God loves you. We are coming up on that time when, each year, we remember and celebrate the great lengths that He went to in order to show His love while we were still sinners. Feel free to contact me or find a local pastor: we want to share this incredible love story with you.
May the God who has given His all to redeem us be honored today in our thoughts and actions.
Bibliography
The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: New Revised Standard Version. New York: Oxford UP, 1989. Print.
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