Spring Cleaning Time!
There is always something refreshing about spring-cleaning. We rake our lawns, clean out our basement, remove cobwebs and empty our garages.
We also discover things that we have misplaced during the winter and discard
items that are no longer important to us.
This is also a good time for evaluating our relationship with God
and other people. This is a time to look
into the word of God so that we can be more like Him (2 Corinthians 3:18). We do not want to be like people who see
junk, soiled items, and non-working things in their lives and do nothing about
them (James 1:22-24).
While you are busy spring-cleaning your natural homes, please do
not forget your spiritual homes. God is
coming back for a church without a spot or wrinkle (Ephesians 5:27). It is time to evaluate whether we have wrong
relationships, things in our lives we have swept under the rug and refused to
discard, or indulgences we know we should give up.
The change in season prompts us to clean house in our lives and
put on those things that please God (Romans 13:12). The book of Ephesians says that we should put
on the new self by adding such characteristics as kindness, compassion, and
forgiveness (Ephesians 4:24, 32).
Let us start this season without the weights of our past and with
a determination that our relationship with God is of utmost importance!
Please comment below with any spring-cleaning tips.
2
Corinthians 3:18
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18 And we all, who
with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into
his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the
Spirit.
James
1:22-24
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22 Do not merely
listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror
24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror
24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
Ephesians
5:27
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27 and to present her
to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish,
but holy and blameless.
Romans
13:12
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12 The night is
nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness
and put on the armor of light.
Ephesians 4:24,
32
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24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true
righteousness and holiness.
32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as
in Christ God forgave you.
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