Spring Cleaning—Attitudes by David Jeremiah

TODAY'S TURNING POINT WITH DR. DAVID JEREMIAH

Spring Cleaning—Attitudes

March 25, 2017

Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2 Timothy 2:22

In her book Spring Cleaning, homemaker Monica Nassif wrote, “The urge arrives several weeks before it’s warm enough to open windows, on the first nice day when an extra glint of sunlight draws attention to a cobweb in a corner or a streak on the floor caused by tracked-in slush…. It’s time for spring cleaning.”¹

Recommended Reading: 2 Timothy 2:14-26

For the Christian, every day is for spring cleaning—we’re to keep our hearts and lives tidy, holy, pure, clean, and fit for the Master’s use. The apostle Paul told Timothy to consider his life a “great house” to be filled with gold and silver and honorable objects (2 Timothy 2:20). Any dishonorable content was to be purged. According to Paul, we should flee youthful lusts and fill our lives with righteousness, faith, love, and peace.

Perhaps you’ve allowed discontentment to grow in the corners of your heart—attitudes like discouragement, grumbling, self-pity, or irritation. It’s time for spring cleaning. Sweep away the old, and let God furnish your life with the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.
Thomas Watson