As we travel through our daily lives, doing our everyday tasks, things rub off on us. Things like dirt, grime, germs, contaminates of one form or another. This causes us to wash our hands and ultimately ourselves in baths and showers. To a large extent most of this contamination process goes unnoticed yet we methodically have a process of cleansing ourselves. Do we acknowledge that our spiritual life can be like that too?
We pick up all sorts of spiritual contaminants through our daily living in our media soaked world. Our eyes are being constantly assailed with images that are good, bad and downright evil. Depending on where we are, we may not be able to do too much about that. However much what attacks us may come from we choose to entertain ourselves with. What we watch, what we listen to. The Bible warns us to watch our "eyegate". What are we looking at on a regular basis? Does it uplift us and bring us closer to God or does it contaminate our spirit?
It is fabulous that God has a remedy for our poor choices, and it is basic Christianity (Christianity 101). It is simply called confession and repentence. God calls us on a daily basis to confess our sin and bad choices then turn from them. A daily spiritual shower which not only cleanses us but allows us to take on the beautiful aroma of forgiveness, grace and freedom. Much as the sweet aroma of shower soap in the natural. I love the feeling of a lovely warm shower and I am learning to do that in the spirit as well on a regular basis.
Paul
Paul
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