Do You Smell That??? What I Learned From Cleaning My House

In just a few hours from now Gina (my hot wife pictured to the left) and I are having some people over to our house.

And you know as well as I do that is code for "We better clean this place before people get here."

We keep our place pretty clean, but normal clean and "people are coming over" clean are two totally different realities.


As I was cleaning (which I love to do....NOT) a few "revelations" came to mind.

1. Don't wait for people to come over to clean your house.

1 Cor. 6:19 tells us that our bodies are the house of the Holy Spirit.

Clean your House often.

Take inventory of your life. See what is dirty in you and clean it.

Don't wait for the "guests" to come before you clean some stuff.

If your House is dirty, the guests will leave and they won't come back.

2. The Trash STINKS until you get rid of it.

Don't ignore the odor.

No amount of Fabreeze can cover the stench of your garbage.

Sometimes we get so used to our environments that our senses become dulled to the evident realities of the present.

If you can smell it....they can DEFINITELY smell it.

I don't care what it looks like....it smells terrible

In your House, life, ministry, and character.....Locate the trash and get rid of it.

#WhatThatSmellLike

3. For one thing to become clean another thing must become dirty.

I had to clean the baseboards. They were kinda gross. Like dust fairies were setting up communities and starting families. Not a good look....

I started off cleaning dirty baseboards with a clean rag....

But it didn't take long before I had clean baseboards and a dirty rag.

Isaiah 64:6 says that our righteousness is like dirty rags....

Juxtapose that verse with 2 Corinthians 5:21 that states "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

For one thing to become clean another thing must become dirty.

For ME to become clean JESUS had to become dirty.

I could never be clean enough on my own. Jesus could never be dirty on his own.

He became sin so I could become righteous!

THAT WILL PREACH ALL DAY! HELLO!