It is Tuesday, one of my favorite days of the week. I enjoy this every seventh day experience of watching the trash truck carry off our garbage. I enjoy even more that every seventh day experience of gathering with the church as we celebrate that our sins are vanquished and cast away as rubbish.

I was visiting in a home where we were discussing the subject of gossip. The wife told me of her father, a Methodist preacher from years gone by, who would not listen to gossip. He would leave the room saying, “My ears are not trash cans.”

I am thankful that Jesus came to cleanse us from sin. We need not have a littered life; we can cast off the sin that so easily ensnares us. Is there something that you need to clean out of your heart and life today? This world can treat our eyes and ears like they are trash cans. Christians must have a wastebasket, not only for the bad things, but for the irrelevant, the unkind, the hurtful, and the empty containers of vanity and pride.

I enjoy even more that seventh day experience of renewal along with my church family. Not only are our sins cast away to be remembered no more, but we are renewed with the clean and pure Spirit of God’s Love.

“There’s nothing too dirty
That you can’t make worthy
You wash me in mercy
I am clean”