There’s something about the DNA in a young man that causes him to simply hate baths! I’m not sure when it started for me, but somewhere about the age of 8 or 10, I decided riding my bike, playing with friends and frankly, just about everything was more fun than coming inside to take a bath. So I did what every other young man has probably done… I cut corners! I pretended to take a bath… running water, splashing water around, but only when I was forced did I actually get IN the water and scrub! The funny thing about boys who don’t bathe properly is that their aroma gives them up! Although things (like hands and faces) appear to be clean, there is something just beyond what the eye can see that proves they’ve avoided the water.
And similarly, many Christians do everything they can to avoid “bathing” in the Word they claim to follow. They become biblically illiterate, or what may be worse, literate in biblical concepts, but living lives unchanged by its truth. Now that I’m all grown up, I shower at least daily. And, as an “all grown up” Christian, I know Jesus wants me to be bathed in His Word at least daily! I used to understand this Scripture as a command for husbands to love their wives (which it is), but it’s also a treatise on how Jesus “cleanses her (the church) by the washing with water through the word.” So… if the church isn’t as spotless as He would want it, it’s because the church has been avoiding the washing with water through the word.
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.” Ephesians 5:25-27
In Christ,
PastorJimKilby @Kilbin8er Jim@JamesKilby.com
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