Christianity

The Daily Scrub

Several years ago I was in college at Austin Peay State University.  One evening at dinner, I was standing in line at grill station, where someone would cook a daily selection right there in front of you.  After they sauteed up that day’s meal, the cook would immediately turn around and wash the skillet that they had used.  I watched this action over and over until it was my turn, then I got my meal and left.  That frying pan held a lesson for me that day.

We’ve all done it.  You cook something that smells wonderful.  It finishes and you take it out of the frying pan and place it in a nice dish, where you sit down for dinner with the family.  After dinner the pan is placed in the sink or left on the stove.  The next day the kids are crazy or work is hectic and when you get home that pan is still there.  Then at Christmas dinner 3 years down the road you open the bottom stove drawer that you always forget about and you find that your now 6 year old son must have hid that crusty pan there.

A frying pan is only good for cooking when it’s clean.  Just like at college that night, if the cook had not washed the pan it would probably have been good for only one shot, then the rest of us would have went home hungry.  Or maybe we wouldn’t have been picky.  Maybe each of us would have lined up for the pan to be used over and over, until last week’s moldings rimmed the sides and sickness started to spread. 

It’s the same way with our spirit man (or woman).  We need God to scrub us from time to time so that we don’t build up gunk.  If he doesn’t, we’ll either push people away with out uncleanliness or we’ll infect them with our own diseased thoughts and intentions.

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