To everything there is a season. . .-Ecc. 3:1
You know it's spring when the Good Friday and Lent have passed with little to no incident from the church folks or the family. Do you remember those Easter suits? It always had to be something light like a khaki or funny green with a pastel shirt and some odd-looking, crooked-hanging clip-on tie with weird images or shapes on it. I'll always remember paisley-printed ties. Ugh!!
That was then, though. Now, as I reflect on spring, I recall that God gives us seasons, signs of change all around us. the wisdom of Solomon teaches us that there is a season for everything. However, look at what God does. He can have us mourning a loved one's passing and anticipating the birth of a child. He can have us laughing at a joke a friend just shared on MySpace and alarmed at what we just saw on the cable news. He has a reason for it all. We may not understand it at all. However, as I look at things today, I am reminded that God does things His way for His own reason.
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Spring Cleaning - Is somewhat of an "Old School" tradition that has brought life to my physical and spiritual walk. When we had Spring Break as kids, it was time to clean everything in the house! Curtains were washed, blinds were taken outside for cleaning, windows, mattresses and anything else that needed a thorough cleaning.
Well it's also time to clean out the internal part of our souls! Whatever looks dirty, smells dirty, acts dirty, needs to be clean and washed by the Blood of the Lamb. Just raise your hands in surrender and allow God to commence with a Soul Spring Cleaning. Over the course of a year, we allow gossip, negativity, life, and sin to creep in and change our spiritual perspective, and it becomes contrast to the Word of God. So by allowing God to perform His Soul Spring Cleaning, we become renewed and regenerated by Him! Spring Cleaning didn't occur in everybody's house in our neighborhood. And so it is with a Soul Spring Cleaning. It's a good idea but Spring Cleaning means something different to each of us.
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