Do You Need to Clean the Tub?

Deep cleaning has become a very popular pastime lately with the necessity of staying home and needing something to do. Several weeks ago (before all of this started) I decided to scrub the tub on a whim (that is how most of my deep cleaning happens). Half way through cleaning I noticed how very dirty the tub had been. Before I started cleaning I hadn’t really noticed all the grime. It wasn’t until I compared the clean half of the tub to the dirty half that I realized just how dirty it had been. I was so used to the build-up of grime that I didn’t notice it.

Do You Need to be Cleansed?

Cleansing was a big part of Hebrew temple worship. One had to be ceremonially clean to offer sacrifices, and there were huge basins in the temple for the priests to wash in-between sacrifices. David wrote psalm after psalm about needing God to cleanse his heart, and many of the New Testament epistles reiterate that theme. Yet it is not a common idea in today’s church. We balk at the idea of needing to be cleansed, especially after salvation. Is cleansing a one time event or is it something we need to pursue on a regular basis?