Making Clean

    Cleaning requires a bit of routine, grit, and energy.  It drives some people giving them energy and for others it is exhausting.  However, everyone knows it is easier if you clean as you go versus letting things slide and try to get things clean.  Dirty settles and is hard to remove once it does.  Your cleaning and sanitation habits tell those around you what type of person you are (motivation and attitude in life).

    When the body produces any type of discharge (sores, semen, or menstrual) it is unclean.  In the beginning of rules were that anything an unclean person touched was considered unclean.  They did not know how to stop infection from spreading, so they isolated the infection.  The person had to go through a cleansing ritual to be able to rejoin society.

    Part of the ritual required atonement.  It was meant to be a release of any hidden sin.  It has been proven that holding onto hidden sin makes the body sick.  It runs hand in hand with stress.  Your stressors can be connected to hidden sin, so if you want to feel better then you have to release that sin.

    Idolatry causes some type of internal sickness.  Some people believed that if you consumed the blood of animals or even other people that it would revive you.  That is just not true.  If anything it makes the body sicker and can be deadly for the consumer.  God forbids a person to consume the life force of any animal.  That means that even your meat needs to be clean before you eat it.

    The mind, body, and soul need to be clean to have a balanced life.  The outward rituals of cleaning can help a person feel better.  It can be relaxing to be tired from cleaning.  You can sit back and see what you accomplished and feel good.  Then you have nothing pulling at you.  You can truly rest.  Don't let the sin sit and take root.  It, like settled dirtiness, is so much harder to remove if it does.

Leviticus 15-17