The priest is to go and examine it and, if the mold has spread in the house, it is a persistent defiling mold; the house is unclean. It must be torn down – it’s stones, timbers, and all the plaster — and taken out of the town to an unclean place.
Leviticus 14:44-45
When the house is unrepairable for the owner, the owner has the opportunity to release control and start new.
As the Israelites were still preparing to enter their promised land, God is laying out the things they will need and actions they should take. In this chapter, we find that God says in some houses he will put a spreading mold. He goes on to explain how the people are to get rid of it, the offerings they are to make, and what they should do if the mold just won’t leave. And what is that, you may ask, teat it down, tear the whole house down and start new.
God brought mold into these houses so the people would get them clean and so they would rely on him if the mold wouldn’t go away. He uses hard things to transform us from the inside out and to teach us to lean on him instead of our own ways.
Just like the house is a place for us to live and heaven is God’s home, the Holy Spirit lives in all of us who have been saved.
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
We can try and clean up our own lives, but it will be difficult, and we will never be fully clean. But when we lay down our lives, our control, and let Jesus have control, the Holy Spirit will come into our bodies and truly clean house. This clean house doesn’t just empty things out, it creates all things new. Nothing of the past will stay, all the mold will be washed away.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17
Truly, we can work all day trying to clean up our house, trying to get our act together, but tomorrow will bring new trials and all our efforts will fly out the windows. But when we let God create something new in us through the cleansing of the blood of Christ and the renewal of our spirits, our earthly dwelling will be fully transformed.
It takes too much continual work to try and clean out our own house. Let’s open our doors to Jesus, and have him tear down the old and create something NEW.
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