"...he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, 'There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house'...and he [the priest] shall examine the disease...and if it appears to be deeper than the surface...they take out the stones in which is the disease and throw them into an unclean place outside the city. And he shall have the inside of the house scraped all around, and the plaster that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.
If the disease breaks out again in the house, after he has taken out the stones and scraped the house and plastered it, then the priest shall go and look. And if the disease has spread in the house, it is a persistent leprous disease in the house...and he shall break down the house...and he shall carry it out of the city to an unclean place...
But if the priest comes and looks, and if the disease has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, for the disease is healed...so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean." --Leviticus 14:35-53
I feel as though there is "disease" in my life that I need to get rid of. I recognize what it is, and as I begin to examine it, I find that it is deeper than the surface. I need to allow the LORD to go in and remove the stones of disease in my life and take them so far outside of my life that there could be no way for them to creep back in. I need Him to scrape out the plaster of my inner being and replace the old stones and plaster with new eternal things that will last, and build up the Kingdom. In the past, I have not allowed God to fully remove the "disease" and cast it so far away that I could never go back to it. It has been a persistent leprous disease in my life, and I want God to break me down. Ultimately I want to be clean and healed as Christ has made atonement for my sin.
I hope you were blessed by this small revelation God has given me. I love you all so much and I pray that God continues to work in each and every one of your lives daily! Thank you for sharing in a little bit of my life...
