Today was one of my favorite days of the year -- scheduled spring cleaning. We cleaned every room of the house, managed to give away four trash bags of stuff, and filled the garbage can with another five bags of trash. And we didn't even get to the garage which deserves its own whole day of organization.
There are three types of people: preternatural slobs, neat-freaks, and the in-between. 2 of those 3 groups feel great after a day of cleaning. And I bet you that third group of slobs would admit that forced under pain of death to change their ways, they would be relieved to dig out from underneath all that chaos. We have in us this innate sense of joy achieved by going from disorder to order.
Why then do the percentages of people in the three groups above change drastically when applied to spiritual cleaning? Imagine a few days of the year that you have dedicated to cleaning out the junk of your souls. You don't think people feel elated to go from the slovenliness of sinful lives to the order of Spirit-filled lives? And yet, so very, very many of us are content to sit on that metaphysical couch covered with oreo crumbs and empty pizza boxes while the cobwebs grow. You think apathy in your physical surroundings leads to some disgusting situations; you haven't seen what that looks like on the spiritual plane. All the more revolting.
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