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)

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?