May the mumbling commence!
Time to clean out the closets! Time to clean underneath the bed! Time to sweep under the rugs as well! Yes, it is time to be clean. It is high time to welcome Christ transforming power into our lives. Read from First Peter chapter one:
So brace up your minds, and, as men who know what they are doing, rest the full weight of your hopes on the grace that will be yours when Jesus Christ reveals himself. Live as obedient children before God. Don't let your character be molded by the desires of your ignorant days, but be holy in every department of your lives, for the one who has called you is himself holy. The scripture says: 'Be holy, for I am holy'. (Verses 13-16)
All our hopes and dreams are invested in Jesus. Our hopes and dreams are well placed. Fall totally into the arms of Jesus.
What does this look like? We will live obedient lives – obedience toward God. It means being holy in every department of our lives.
When I read this statement, I thought of fancy department stores that neatly compartmentalize our lives. There is the wardrobe section and the kitchen section and the hardware section and the electronic section. Never the twain shall meet.
God knows better. Everything in our lives is interconnected. Our very lives and relationships are interconnected. We can truly claim to do very little (if anything on our own). The same can be said of our failures. We stand together, and we fall together.
It means cleaning out all the closets and glove compartments of our lives. We need to clean out the physical ones and the spiritual ones and the attitudinal ones. It is a spring cleaning with its roots in the resurrection of Christ – which we celebrate in the spring of the year.
Spring is lovely. It is a time for new hope and new growth. And this time is made possible by letting go of the things that die in the winter seasons of our lives.
Let us chase after God’s own heart. Let us run the race to be holy, for our Lord is holy.
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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