Restoration is as simple as cleaning house
So often we pollute our lives with so much of the world that we loose our focus and vision. We replace Jesus on the throne of our lives with ourselves. This also happens in our churches. We replace Jesus with ourselves and when that happens it makes a mess of our lives and our churches. We loose our vision and we begin filling up our lives and churches with fruits of sin. Gossip, back stabbing, selfishness, jealousy, and ego become the order of the day and the result is it seems that Jesus is absent from us.
There is an awesome piece of scripture that speaks of a time where the people of God are very far from God and have polluted their lives and temple with things of the world. As a result their lives are a wreck and God is no where to be found. Then comes along a leader named Hezekiah that cleans house. He calls his leadership team together and tells them to clean house. Hezekiah basically says that we have lost our focus and vision. He tells them that no longer is God on the throne and that we have to restore God to the throne by dethroning ourselves. They get to work and God moves in a mighty way to the point that they look back and it seems that suddenly this God who was absent was present in the restoration of their lives.
If you find your life or your church today in a place that seems absent from God. If your life and church is ruled by the fruit of sin (gossip, jealousy, ego, selfishness) and it seems like there is no way out I want to tell you there is a better way today. If you will do an honest job at cleaning house and restoring Jesus to the throne of your life and church then I believe you will shout from the root tops the same proclamation as the Israelites during the time of Hezekiah. You will look back and think, “wow, what an awesome God that all of a sudden blessed us by showing up in our lives.”
Peace from Pastor P
