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What God Cleans

What God has made clean, do not call common What an excellent day quizzing!  I often say I learn as much as the children I coach.  Today was our last quiz for the season, so it was bittersweet.  As we were cramming between quizzes, hoping to get a few more answers, one verse jumped out at me.  “What God has made clean, do not call common.”  That’s it … just one sentence but today it preached a whole sermon to my spirit.  I have a hard time seeing myself as good.  In fact, most of the time, I tend to demand perfection from myself. It’s ok if others sin, I can forgive that.  What I can’t get past, are my OWN imperfections.  Sometimes I look at others and see this magnificent, amazing vessel that God is using.  Then I look at myself and see a pot that is dirty, scratched, chipped and not very pleasing at all.  As I was pondering this, it was like God said, “You’re my child! I made you clean! You’re not uncle...