Clean Up

The Cleanup ImperativeTranscript
#1404 Isaiah 52:11; 2 Timothy 2:20-21

If you don't like to wash your hands, don't become a doctor or a nurse. They have to wash their hands a lot! Avoiding infection is at the heart of a hospital's insistence that healers and caregivers get really clean before they touch you. If they carry infection, they can do a lot of damage.

It's not just doctors and nurses that have to be clean for what they do. It's a requirement God makes of anyone who's doing His work on earth, including teaching, working in ministry, or raising a family in His ways.

The Bible says, "...be pure, you who carry the vessels of the Lord." When you're doing anything for God, you'd better not be handling the holy with dirty hands, a dirty mind, dirty motives, or a dirty attitude. The Apostle Paul said, "If a man cleanses himself ... he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master, and prepared to do any good work." No one serving God should dare to do it without first "scrubbing up."

Bow before your Savior and let Him forgive you, let Him cleanse you, and let Him purify you. He has great work for you to do; many lives for you to touch with His healing love. But only if you're clean!

Source: July 18th 2007 - Call for Greatness, Ron Hutchcraft Ministries