Yeast

Why must the bread be unleavened and the wine be new? If we are to be pure we must not be infected by the world! Advice given to me nearly twenty-one years ago still rings true, "When you go out into that world, do not get any on you." I remember Majed telling me this as I was leaving California for the first time. I tried to understand it back then, but it is only now that this advice comes to reassure me. I have been "puffed up" with the yeast of the world; bloated with all of its comforts and prideful of 'my' accomplishments. Christians are strangers and aliens here, we need not entangle ourselves with these comforts and pleasures, these niceties and riches. Some of us may have the opportunity afforded us to enjoy on the occasion these things, but too often we pursue them to the extent of becoming covered with yeast, swelling up in our minds and in our bodies till like a sourdough we have so many holes in us we can never feel complete. All of this because as we are being molded we let the contaminate of this world fall upon us. Our Exodus is near passover meal must be readied and the leavening be taken out of our house. Recently I observed as a local church removed some of the last elements of leavening from my residence. I went to another church and they filled my residence more peaceable items for a more humble life. It is amazing to me how God works to correct us in our lives. There are only six things that are missing from this house now that I ever want back, but they are as they have always been, His. I am an old wine skin who is ready to be filled with His new wine till I am bursting at the seems spurting His wine upon all mankind. Use me Father keep me unleavened.