Stay Fresh

Voice of Eden (episode 145)

Mon. 11th November 2019

     #Stay_fresh

_it takes constant clean up to stay fresh. 

Key passage: 1Cor 5:7

Purge (clean out) the old leaven that you may be fresh (new) dough, still uncontaminated [as you are], for Christ, our Passover [Lamb], has been sacrificed.

Dear friend, 

You'll agree with me that whatever is fresh is attractive, inviting and also appealing to the senses. You'll also agree with me that in our present day, we are all in a struggle to keep everything fresh; fresh air, fresh plant, fresh skin, fresh water and so on, simply because everything is being contaminated. People go down everyday with one sickness or another just because the water we drink, air we breath or plant we eat are all not fresh. So we devised various means of keeping them fresh. 

Of all the water on Earth, just 2.5% is fresh water, and most of that is locked up in ice or deep underground. Rivers and lakes hold only a tiny fraction – but it’s this water that farming, industry, seven billion human beings and all life on land depend on.

What about our skin? Skin care is the range of practices that support skin integrity, enhance its appearance and relieve skin conditions. They can include nutrition, avoidance of excessive sun exposure and appropriate use of emollients. Practices that enhance appearance include the use of cosmetics, botulinum, exfoliation, peels...at the attempt to keep the skin fresh we end up damaging the skin. Not to talk much of the air we breath; Over the past 30 years, researchers have unearthed a wide array of health effects which are believed to be associated with air pollution exposure.  Among them are respiratory diseases (including asthma and changes in lung function), cardiovascular diseases, adverse pregnancy outcomes (such as preterm birth), and even death.

*What do we do to stay fresh?*

I'm not writing today to give you rules of how to take care of your skin, water or the air you breath. You can check that online or meet a specialist. But I'm writing to make you see that everything must be taken care of by cleaning regularly  in other for them to stay fresh. Your marriage, friendship, relationships, self -especially your faith and your spirit!

1. One common thing amongst believe today is that we are not fresh. The same "rhema" we shared some weeks back is the same word we have today. Nothing new. We are mostly comfortable with just a little progress and we stay there until we die. If the word is new every morning, then I means with every passing day there's something new for us to receive. Don't hold on so tight to what you learnt that you can't even open up for what the morning comes with. 

2. Not just that, we are also static and not dynamic. Stay around a believer and you'll get bored because he or she has no clue or can't talk about anything else that isn't scripture. Don't get me wrong,  I'm not saying we should go into wild chattering and never talk about scripture. But be fresh. Know a little of everything so you can have something wise to say as much as you can also relate it to the scriptures. Don't repel any knowledge simply because it's not scriptural. Know how to fit into any conversation and own it. 

3. Constantly drink fresh stream. 

(more to come) 

*You can look fresh and not be fresh*

Looking fresh doesn't mean you are fresh. Too many people today look fresh, but aren't fresh at all. Looking fresh is not as important as being fresh, because if you be fresh I believe you will look fresh. Things that contaminates always comes from the outside, but they target your inside. And offence from the outside can make you keep malice on the inside, a sight from the outside can make you dwell on a thought on the inside, a wrong from the outside can cause you to keep bitterness and unforgiveness on the inside... *We are contaminated  from the outside in*. That is why we must make sure we constantly clean up our inside so we can stay fresh, not just the outside because we want to look good. 

#keepgrowing 

#voe

#StayFresh

#goodmorning