We just know it’s time!
We want to open the windows.
Get out the rake, hoes, lawn mower and garbage bags.
Put on gloves and our old clothes and get down to it.
Yes, its time to spring clean.
Why?
Even wonder where spring cleaning came from? If you research the topic, you will find various historical roots for people working to declutter, clean up and straighten out their homes and yards at the beginning of the year or in spring.
In Judeo-Christian life, the Bible explains that God instructed the Jewish people to clean their homes, clean out the leaven and certain types of grains before Passover.
Remember Passover? Remember when the Jews were in captivity in Egypt and God set them free. They had to leave home in a hurry, unable to take the yeast or rising bread with them because there would be no time or place to let the bread rise. They would eat unleavened bread without yeast.
Yeast (leaven) almost always represents sin or evil in the Bible, or pride and selfishness. Yeast is tiny, yet in the right conditions it causes a great change in bread dough. Yeast puffs the dough up, makes it bigger, and permeates the entire dough.
Sin is like that. Sin can begin very small — a passing thought, an unholy desire, a quick unplanned occurrence can trigger sin if we are not on guard. Galatians 5:9 says, “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.”
False teaching, sin, disobeying God can spread through a church or denomination, just as it can in an individual or family.
Sin is worse than any COVID, flu, pneumonia, disease or germ around us! And sin does spread if we don’t resist it, put on the whole armor of God and fight it and repent to Jesus about our sin as we turn away from it.
Be on guard that what you hear, meditate on, believe and depend on is biblical!
Jesus warned the people of His day about the “leaven of the Pharisees” and said, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy” (Luke 12:1).
In contrast to comparing yeast to sin, Jesus also compared yeast to the opposite of sin — the Kingdom of God! He told them still another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough” (Matthew 13:33).
The Kingdom of Heaven, the Gospel, Jesus Christ’s message, is alive! His truth is working to transform people, churches, denominations and the believing world. A baker has to be patient to wait, and check, and wait, and check, until the dough is properly risen and ready to bake. It takes time. It takes nurturing, It takes spreading. Think about your life.
Do you see the signs of the rising?
