SIN,
VICTORY OVER

MY WIFE loves to keep a clean home. But there is one thing my wife despises when it comes to cleaning: she hates cleaning tubs. She doesn’t like cleaning tubs. She asked me when we first got married if I would be willing to do two housekeeping things: one was to take out the trash; the other was to clean the tubs.

I’ve cleaned my share of tubs and it’s hard work. Number one, it’s uncomfortable. You’ve got to get down on your knees. You’ve got to lean over and scrub. Then you have to rinse. If the tub is not fully clean, then you have to go through the whole process again. But as technology got better, I went to the store one day and I saw that they had come up with a cleaner that you simply poured on the tub or sprayed on the ring, and it penetrated the dirt. You would know it was working because it would bubble and foam up. It would begin to remove the dirt that had accumulated on the tub.

Many of us are getting down on our knees and trying to scrub the mess out of our lives. However, there is a shelf cleaner in the heavenly supermarket that has been designed to do the work for you. If you’ll simply apply walking in the Spirit in your spiritual life, He will bubble up the mess that is in you so that all you’ve got to do is wipe it clean, not work it out. All you’ll have to do is take advantage of what He’s already done. The anointing of the Spirit means that when you think in terms of the Spirit and then you act in terms of what you think based on your new identity in Christ, He sets you free.866

[Holy Spirit, Filling of; Spirit, Filled with; Spirit, Walking in]

Ps. 51:7; Acts 22:16