So, many of you, might've read the post below! Peace in the spirit, mind, and soul, is the best thing one can have, I shall call this peace a "cleanliness". I must say honestly, that this is a touchy subject, but my house has been infested by the evil cockroaches! Daily we had to keep food away from them, spray them, and even squish them with our hands! But most of the time, I kill a cockroach with "one of those filthy rags, over thar yonder" (hence the title) Have you ever noticed how churches say, "Filthy rags"? by that we think, "oh, we just used a rag on a counter, it's filthy..." NO! That is so unbiblical! If that were true, we wouldn't HAVE to use God's Son's blood to wash us. We could still forgive ourselves and everything would be fine! But that isn't the way it was! Image this: "you-just-cleaned-the-bathroom-kitchen-and-killed-cockroaches-and-all-types-of-bug-ridden-guts-with-lots-and-lots-of-mold-mildew-and-throw-up-and-more-disgusting-things-than-words-to-say-on-a-rag" type of "filthy rags"! Why would God send Jesus to die for everyone if it were just a spot of mud? We were really gross, And to think about it, God must've had a good strong stomach to clean us, not to say that not to say that we should continuously say that we are that bad, cuz God has risen us up for His glory to shine on us, and though we might've been those "FILTHY RAGS" before, we are not anymore, we are cleaned in the blood of Jesus Christ forever! I never thought of how roaches could be useful in a teaching on peace, but with all those, disgusting bugs, and gross things out there, we need to think of how God has, is, and will clean us until we no longer need it (that would be when we are in Heaven) It is the undoing of many wrongs to bring us to that clean, peace, that we have when our home, and rags are no longer in ruin. Although the world is in ruin, we can truthfully say that our lives are not, with that peace that passes all understanding! Think about the pain that Jesus suffered! Would he had done it if we could clean ourselves on our own? No, He wouldn't. But, He knew that we could not handle this on our own. It's like the overwhelmedness that you get when you look at a room that has toys, trash, clothes, and all those things that God can clean, but of your own works you couldn't, because you are only a child that needs the help of your Father!
Say Amen? AMEN!
Mari J. Fahel
Interesting story to tackle.
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