Good Friday morning! No, not that kind of house, though I am not perfect in that regard either. We are speaking of the house that God built, the temple where the Holy Spirit resides after salvation. We're talkin' lust instead of dust. That stuff we let into the house of the mind that causes sin - greed, coveting, hate, envy, and the other stuff that we don't always make much effort to remove in a timely manner is the dirt and detritus of this house. When we look at the filthy corners of our home, we must stop to wonder that God would even want His Spirit to live here. Oh, but He does, and the Spirit brings a much bigger broom than we have in our cupboard.
During our sanctification, we do a lot of cleaning in our lives, or so it seems to us. Most often I suspect that we are the child sweeping a little while the Spirit sweeps a lot. The cleaning effort we are capable of is certainly much less than God's Spirit does in us. The real problem comes when that sneaky carnal desire of ours sneaks around tossing dirt back into the cleaned corners of the mind. Then, instead of helping in the cleaning, we try to hide that little bit of dirt. Sigh, at times we think perfection is so far from us. But then, Jesus says, "I'm right here with you!"
Enjoy a great Friday in Christ!Bucky
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