Rethinking Sacrifice Week 3: Spring Cleaning By: Minister James Porter

Remember back in the day your parents made you do spring cleaning.  Your parents made you clean places you never thought about cleaning before. Like under and behind the toilet bowl, cleaning the baseboards in the kitchen, cleaning windows inside and out, and let’s not forget throwing away items you don’t need. Those were the days! Well, we still have to do some deep cleaning even today. 

Lent is about sacrifice, repentance, and cleansing. Spiritual Cleansing is important for the heart, mind, and spirit. Ps 51:10 say “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.”  In this season of Lent, let's ask the Lord to remove the hatred, guilt, malice, evil stuff from our hearts.  Remove the negative, nasty, disrespectful thoughts out of our minds and keep our minds stayed on thee.  Allow God to grant you access to a new heart and new spirit.   An impure mind leads to an impure heart, and an impure heart leads to an impure spirit.  With God, if we clean up one area, He will help us clean the other areas in our lives.  

After we clean up our self spiritually, we must also clean up ourselves physically.  Physical cleansing is discarding items that may distract us from making room for God.  In this season of Lent, you may need to throw out some people, places, and things to allow Jesus to occupy that space.  We all some items that can be tossed away and never return.  I will leave you with this, one day (if not already) you will receive a message on your phone saying, Storage full or almost full.  Some of us have photos, videos, and old numbers dated years back on our phones that are occupying space.  Unless you delete, you are unable to add any new content.  How can you allow Jesus to clean your heart, mind, spirit when your storage is at its max capacity?  It’s time for some Spring cleaning!