Spanking Clean |
You know the room, it has white carpet, and white furniture possibly even with plastic covers.
The walls are immaculate with carefully selected decorations. Yes, everything is perfectly dust
free and practically sanitized like an operating room.
Oddly enough this space is labeled a living
room but so seldom does anyone go there that it bears no evidence of ever being lived in.
Yes
indeed it is spanking clean, by design and upkeep.
We often believe we must have a place like this to receive guests properly.
After all, what
would the neighbors say?
Have you ever mowed the lawn twice so the criss-cross pattern is perfect?
Have
you spent time putting the contents of a cupboard into order by size?
Have you contributed
more money to your hair stylist than to, say, a missionary?
What happens when you want to receive the utmost of visitation?
How can you
prepare to receive the Holy Spirit of God and enter into worship in spirit and truth?
The truth
of the matter is, you will never scrub it clean enough, never get it straight and orderly enough,
never ever produce an orderly organized self to God Almighty!
There is simply no cleanser no
disinfectant that can provide a space appropriate for Him.
Those who must chase dirt until the
last molecule is purged do so in an endless futility.
Prepare yourself for a visit from God?
How?
We cannot create a bubble of nice, when we live under a smokestack spewing soot all
day.
So we must just give in, come to the Christ who was provided for just this condition we
hate.
This state of unclean, that we can neither sponge or vacuum, replace or organize.
It is
simply tainted by the nature of our being here in this fallen world.
Cleanliness is next to
sinfulness, because the perfection of a loving God can not be approximated so, why try?
He has offered you a free coupon for a complete make-over, and frankly, you will
never achieve it yourself.
So take the deal.
Give up your personal preparation, it’ll never be
ready.
What’s in Your Worship?
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