Spring Cleaning

Today’s Reading – 2 Kings 11 – 12

And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD. And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD’S people; between the king also and the people. (2 Kings 11:17 & 18)

My house is kind of strange. My driveway is on the side of the house, not the front; and so is the garage. As a result I seldom enter through the front door, but almost always come in through the garage. Like most of you, periodically I have to clean my garage because it gets full of junk. I am amazed how stuff begins to pile up in there. It doesn’t happen overnight, but gradually there will be so much clutter in there, that I can’t stand looking at it anymore, and I am forced to clean it out again.

The Kingdom’s of Judah and Israel were the same way. A good king would come along and clean the nation out spiritually, and morally. However, years would go by; people would perhaps let down their guard; and slowly, gradually, all of the junk of the world and the devil would creep back in. The situation would get so bad that God’s people would realize how far away they had gotten; and they would have a good “Spring Cleaning”.

My spiritual life and the spiritual life of my family is the same way. It needs a good cleaning periodically. Thank the Lord that He allows us to come to Him whenever we fail and confess our sins to Him; and we are cleansed. However, we also need to remove some of the weights from our life that cause us to get “cluttered” in the first place. What junk do you have in your spiritual garage that needs to be taken to the dump?

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Phil Erickson

Pastor Phil Erickson has been the pastor of Jersey Shore Baptist Church since 2002. Having grown up in Ocean County, Pastor Phil has always had a burden for the south Jersey area. After graduating from Bible College in Longview, Texas, he and his family moved to Galloway Township with the vision of digging in and serving the Lord and the people of Atlantic County. Pastor Phil and Cindy Erickson have been married for 34 years, and have four children and eight grandchildren. His oldest son, Phil Jr., and wife, Katelyn, are serving the Lord at a church in Paradise, TX. His oldest daughter, Melissa, is married to Wesley Clayton who is in the Air Force and is currently stationed in South Carolina. Samantha, his third child is married to Justin Mears and they are both serving the Lord here at the church in Galloway. Hannah is the youngest and is a sophomore at Vision Baptist College while also serving the Lord at Jersey Shore Baptist Church.