Chatting with Jesus
June 28
Lord, You often spoke of the importance of “sweeping our house clean” after committing our lives to You. The world cannot do it. Ideologies fail to do it either. Only You can change us on the inside. Only You can change our hearts, our spiritual house.
The Apostle Paul stated this truth succinctly in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “[a]nyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun.” Yes, we’re changed on the inside, but we soon find some ‘old things’ still hang around.
Psalm 101 describes the psalmist’s personal ‘sweeping clean his house’ when he determined to live all-in for You. With the first sweep of his broom, he pleaded, “You are gonna help me, aren’t You, Lord?” (verse 2). You more than came through for him.
One after another, You helped the psalmist replace those ‘old things’ he swept out with more of Your character. Anger replaced by grace and mercy. Bitterness buried by love and forgiveness. Greed smothered by joy and godly contentment. Slowly, the psalmist life developed such an extent of Your attributes like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, (Galatians 5:22) that his friends and family could not imagine him ever being any other way.
Lord, that I might have that same desire to “sweep my house clean” and refill it with Your spiritual gifts and character. Jesus, You and I will silence those naysayers who claim an old dog can’t change.
We’ll show ’em, won’t we Lord. Amen.
THANKFUL 
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