Overflowing with dishes encrusted in yesterday’s meals
A sink full of dishes waiting to be cleansed
A passerby may think they were clean, but reality is found in the pungent odor of decay
How can we be so blind? We miss the truth of our creation.
Dirty dishes aren’t useful to anyone.
You can fill them with anything of worth and there is no image reflected when you hold them up to the light.
Too often we only glance at superficial realities. Seeing only what we want others to see.
They may see us as cups clean and shiny
But reality is found inside with built up layers foulness
Years worth of decaying food layered one on top of the other
Come Lord and do some dishes
Take a sink full of rotting useless dishes and make us useful and brilliant
If we are chipped and broken, piece us back together and make us whole
Fill us to overflowing with your water of life and use us to fill those who thirst and hunger
A sink full of dishes, forgotten, walked by, ignored
May your church be cleansed again
Not to sit and look beautiful on a shelf somewhere
But to be used in service of the world
Luke 11:39-41 “Then the Lord said to him,’Now then, you Pharisees clean 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.”
February 27, 2007 at 9:08 pm
Come, Holy Spirit, Come!
The beautiful thing is that we are promised transformation from the inside out AND we can expect these promises to be fulfilled. This is hopeful stuff! Some discipline may be in order to get things going right. Right?
Let’s pray for the church to meet with the giant Brillo. May need some elbow grease too. That sounds like something my grandmother would say.