This morning as I've been praying, thinking about prayer, and brainstorming for Sunday's message, I've been thinking about the great need for getting our insides clean. I think you know what I mean...
Many of us are able to paint these beautiful pictures on the outside...like we've got it all together...that we're doing just fine. But, on the inside, there's all kinds of stuff going on.
Jesus addressed this stuff with the Pharisees. "When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited him to eat with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. But the Pharisee was surprised when he noticed that Jesus did not first wash before the meal. Then the Lord said to him, 'Now then, you Pharisees clean on the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You foolish people! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? But now as for what is inside you - be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.'" (Luke 11:37-41).
There's all kinds of stuff in this passage...legalistic religious rules being more important than the relationship lived out in faith...the inner condition of a person...generosity...etc. Read over that passage and see what God is trying to say to you. What speaks to me is the great need for we, as Christians, to stop trying to cover up our insides by being so "clean" on the outside.
As you pray today, be open and honest with God. Talk to Him about the condition of the inside of your cup and bowl.
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