Jesus says in Matthew 12….

“When a defiling evil spirit is expelled from someone, it drifts along through the desert looking for an oasis, some unsuspecting soul it can bedevil. When it doesn’t find anyone, 44 it says, ‘I’ll go back to my old haunt.’ On return it finds the person spotlessly clean, but vacant.45 It then runs out and rounds up seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all move in, whooping it up. That person ends up far worse off than if he’d never gotten cleaned up in the first place.“That’s what this generation is like: You may think you have cleaned out the junk from your lives and gotten ready for God, but you weren’t hospitable to my kingdom message, and now all the devils are moving back in.”

Wondering today how “hospitable” I’ve been to His kingdom message or am I still convinced I know how it all should go. How many rooms in this “hotel heart” of mine am I leaving vacant for an old life to move back  in? 

Jesus forgive me. Help me to forgive others. Please consume me! Fill my heart with your presence!  Leave no room for a return of anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, jealousy, deceit, doubt, confusion, maliciousness or perversion of mind, body or soul! Amen.