There is an interesting Jewish tradition that happens before Passover each year called kashering. A family cleans their home of all yeast and leaven; anything non-kosher, the days leading up to the holiday. It’s a reminder to repent of sinful ways as a preparation.
Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough – you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.” 1Corinthians 5:7 NET
Rabbis instruct, “Only utensils that can be scrubbed clean should be kashered.” Interesting that Believers are referred to as utensils for God’s purposes in scripture. Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross during Passover cleansed us from sin, making us useful to Him.
If you keep yourself pure, you will be a special utensil for honorable use. Your life will be clean, and you will be ready for the Master to use you for every good work. 2 Timothy 2:21
For years I have been aware of God cleaning up my family. Ridding our vice & evil, and growing sincerity & truth in our hearts. It has not always been a pleasant experience, but the results are freedom and usefulness.
“So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.” 1Corinthians 5:8 NET
Sanctification is a lifelong process! Our old ways are hard to break. Thankfully God is not daunted by the ginormous task. I am clean in His eyes, and yet the process continues to make me more like Jesus.
ForGlorySake! –Anna
