September 6, 2011
Isaiah 1:16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil
Have you ever noticed that some rooms in your house are
cleaner than others? Those that are more likely to be seen by others or those
that you have to look at the most are usually kept cleaner than those that are
hidden or those that you might not spend a lot of time in. I had a chance to
clean one of those rooms yesterday; Terry and I cleaned the playroom. Wow…we
threw away lots of stuff that was unnecessary and was really just taking up
space. As I was cleaning up, I noticed the parallel to our spiritual lives;
sometimes we need to take a look at our hearts. We need to examine those areas
that we tend to never go in that we just usually leave alone; we need to
examine them and we need to purge them. We need to look at our lives and see
what we might be involved in that is not what God would have us to do and we
need to get rid of those. We need to make sure that all the rooms in our “house”
are clean. This verse in Isaiah is dealing with God’s rejection of the children
of Israel’s worship because their hearts and hands were not clean. Would God
reject ours? Would He find our hearts and hands clean? Do we need to clean
house?
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