One morning as I awoke, I felt an urgency to clean my house. I could not explain my feelings but I knew that I had to make sure that the bathrooms were clean, the sheets were changed, the furniture polished and the carpet vacuumed. I made sure the floors were mopped and I even cleaned a few windows. I wanted everything to be spotless. My husband and children asked why I was cleaning the way I was. After all, spring was still a few months away. I replied, “I have this feeling that someone is coming to visit with us.” We had been invited to a friend’s house for a cookout that afternoon. I told my husband that I wasn’t sure if I could go because someone was coming. He talked me into going, but before I left I placed a note on our front door letting our visitor know where we were. I was that sure of their coming. While at the house of our friends, I kept looking out of the corner of my eye for that visitor. The lady of the house asked me if I was okay and why did I keep looking out of the corner of my eye as if I was looking for someone. I told her that someone was coming. As soon as the words left my mouth I looked in the direction of the side of her house and there was our visitor. The lady of the house knew that they were coming and could not tell us. I yelled out, “I knew it! I knew it! I told you that someone was coming!

A few days later I was reminded of how I worked so hard to get my earthly house clean in expectation of those visitors. The Lord wants us to keep our spiritual temple (house) clean before Him. We are His temple. The Lord showed me a picture of a refrigerator and how we keep putting things into it and never taking them out- that is until the contents have become moldy. We begin to stink. God wants us to get rid of the garbage. “IT IS TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE!” We must not only be looking for His return; we must be EXPECTING His return!

Sharon Powell