in Arabic
Newsletter of June 2008
In Jesus name,
In our time, cleanliness is something required not only for health
purposes, but also gives a touch of beauty for the things surrounding
us.
When everything around us is clean, we are
glad and feel comfortable. The Pharisees and Scribes asked Jesus in
Matthew 15:2: Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of
the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Washing
of hands as a religious obligation was one of the important issues
in Israel at that time and it was taken from the laws of Moses in
Exodus 2. All what is written in the Law was important and was a religious
duty that the children of Israel had to observe, but the Lord Jesus
Christ gave the right answer (He always gives the right answer), when
He said: Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in
at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the
heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with
unwashen hands defileth not a man. Mat 15:17-20
Nowadays many are for the outward cleanliness
and appearance, but they don’t care for the cleanliness of the heart.
Jesus Christ said in Luke 6:45: A good man out of the good treasure
of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out
of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil:
for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Let everyone of us check and examine our heart. If we find uncleanliness
and bad things in our lives, then let us clean the heart and ask God
with prayer and fasting to help us in this matter. Let us pray as
David did, when he said in Psalm 51:10: Create in me a clean heart,
O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
And God will hear the prayer.
God be with you. es