I like history. I love discovering the origins of the different habits and hobbies that make up our society. One of the issues that catch my attention this time of year is “SPRING CLEANING”- it has a Biblical background.
The custom can be traced back to the days of the Passover in Exodus 12. There we read the instruction which Moses was to translate to the Children of Israel. The point was to help them survive the passing through of the Lord as he smote the first born children of Egypt. The important verse to notice is Exodus 12:15. “Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.” The portion to notice is the command to make sure that even the house in which they lived was clean of ALL LEAVEN.
Jewish tradition holds that even to have a crumb in the home was unacceptable, and therefore resulted in the people of Israel making sure to clean their houses in order to be pleasing in the sight of the Lord.
So, how clean is your house? Not your home in which you live, but your spiritual home? Paul states in 2 Corinthians 13: 5 that each man should examine himself to see whether he is in the faith; we should make sure that we are keeping our spiritual house in order. Today, take a moment to look around, maybe do a little spring cleaning of your own, for that would be pleasing in the sight of the Lord.
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