Good Morning Pastor John.
I was just reading the TFM for today, December 9. It was about a wonderful experience brother Billy M had with Jesus. At one point, brother Billy tells of Jesus telling him he cannot come into God’s house with muddy feet. Jesus had just talked with me about this.
One of my adult children has burned many bridges and is soon to be homeless or on someone’s couch. This happened because of the sin and mess they continue to bring into the lives of those trying to help them.
I was told by another of my adult children that their father was going to have that child call me. So, mentally, I was preparing myself for that phone call, and Jesus showed me just how I should look at it.
In 2010, I was living on someone’s couch. Literally (but also spiritually). I was in a run-down shack in a bad neighborhood. Jesus came and laid a new foundation in a wonderful, safe and clean area. Jesus built sturdy walls and floors, furnishing it with everything I need to live in this beautiful, clean place. Jesus has surrounded me with loving neighbors, and Jesus taught me how to care for and maintain this wonderful place and is teaching me how to be a good neighbor.
Jerry and I take our shoes off, figuratively, and do not bring dirt and muck into the life Jesus built for us. Why then would I let someone else bring dirt and muck into it after all the hard work Jesus did cleaning it up?
If someone wants to wear their dirt and muck into their home, then so be it, but they cannot bring it into ours. They cannot bring it into His house. The day they want Jesus to build them a clean house and kick off those dirty mucky shoes, I’ll be right here waiting for them, pointing to the Master Builder.
Here is that Thought for the Morning: https://goingtojesus.com/gtj_thoughts.html?tname=tfm12-09
An excerpt:
“The Spirit was telling me on the tour through the Temple that I would not be allowed to have mud on my feet, or run in and out of God’s house as an unruly child does. I had to be clean (spiritually speaking) and would not be allowed to get mixed-up with the world by coming in and out of the place where God dwells; but if I keep myself clean, there is a place I can go where I can commune with God”
Beth D.