CLUTTERED HOUSE

1 Corinthians 6: 12 – 20

We all have that place, or room, or shed, or even house, that is filled with clutter and junk. There are things that we thought would be useful, things that one day may be valuable, or even needed in an emergency. There is some things that hold special memories, and there is just plane junk that we aren't really sure why we picked up in the first place.
When things are like this we keep people away so they won't see how messy things are I our lives.
What are we doing this? Why do we insist on cluttering up our places?
What happens is that we need to take time to get into those places that we have messed up, and just clean and scrub until things are nice and shiny. When we do this we are happy to have company come over, and are proud to open our doors and let people see our places.
Our bodies are like this. We have little dark places full of filth and sin that we are not letting people see, and we can hide it pretty well from almost everybody. But we carry the burden of all that junk weighing us down, and we wonder what can we do to clean up?
The best thing we can do is to keep from junking up our bodies in the first place.

12 "Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything.
14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."
17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.
19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Now that we read what God has intended for us it becomes easy to try to live up to his vision for us. Whether we can attain those heights remains to be seen. But, we do have a blue print to follow.