Spring Cleaning

This is the time of year that is we often hear people start to talk in terms of this Spring Cleaning Attitude that they are getting into, and this means something different for everyone.

The Garage is the place that we typically tackle with this Spring Cleaning attitude.  We remove all the items, sweep it out, empty the shelves and dust them off and next comes the fun.  We play with things we had forgotten were there and then discuss what is still in good shape that we don’t need that someone else could use and if we know someone specific or if we should donate it.  The next step is more difficult and that is we discuss what needs to be disposed of because for whatever reason it doesn’t have a place in our life any longer.

In surveying the garage last night I started to take mental notes of items that might fall into that last category and then occurred to me that that this Spring Cleaning Attitude fits right in line with Matthew 12: 43-45.
"When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.44 Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation."

The above scripture is telling us that if we take that spring cleaning attitude to our hearts and our lives and as some might say “clean up our life” and start to identify areas that don’t have a place in our life  but fail to fill it up with the Holy Spirit then all we have done is make more room for Satan to enter and to attack harder than before.  As someone who has done some major cleaning in the past and who like many has to continually clean and reorganize, this scripture is one of those great reminders that first step is important but knowing what Jesus wants us to fill our hearts and lives up with and then doing that is just as important.
Let’s make this Spring Cleaning Attitude one that will all us to fill ourselves back up in an organized fashion for Jesus.

In Christ,

Matthew Likens

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