Two-Minute Manna

Ahaz had allowed the Temple to be desecrated and defiled. Here, Hezekiah tells the Levites to clean it up.

So too, because we are the temple of the true and living God, there must be a continual cleansing of the filthiness that pollutes and penetrates our lives. It is interesting to me that virtually all of creation is concerned with cleanliness.

Mice and rats actually spend the majority of their waking hours grooming themselves. They carry disease, but are actually surprisingly clean. So are elephants. Elephants who become invaded with parasites cover themselves with dust. Then they rub themselves against trees. The dust suffocates the bugs. The tree acts like a towel to wipe the dead bugs from off their back. Finally, they give themselves showers by filling their trunks with water and squirting themselves. The gecko lizards in the desert in the southwest part of our country are interesting because they don’t have any eyelids. Yet they live in a place where there is lots of dirt and sand. So what do they do? The gecko lizard has a long tongue which actually extends all the way to their eyes and thus is able to clean them.

There seems to be innately built into creation a desire to be clean. And yet when it comes to the heart of man, we allow corruption and pollution to affect us internally. Cleansing needs to be carried out daily. How? If we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). This verse, one which you’ve maybe known since childhood, tells us that even if you feel defiled and desecrated, you can solve the problem right now simply by confessing. When you confess your sin, the blood of Jesus is immediately applied and it removes all the filth from the temple of your life.