Out with the old; in with the new.

Out with all the old!

I find it easy to excuse a little bit of evil because it’s just a little bit.

But as verse six says, “a little leaven leaventh the whole lump.” It doesn’t take a huge amount of yeast to affect a whole gob of doughnut dough.

So . . . .

“Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump . . .” (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Looking at this from a different angle, sometimes I leave a small good deed undone because it’s so little.

The smallest act of goodness results in blessing way out of proportion to its size.

A smile here, an approving word there, a little bonus of kindness over yon — big blessings to God, the recipient, and the giver.

Required?

What?

Faithfulness.

By Whom?

God.

From whom?

Me.

“Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful” (1 Corinthians 4:2).

Faithful with what?

My life.

In other words, my opportunities, my gifts, my time, my energy, my resources, my strength, my all.

A steward uses what has been entrusted to him in ways he thinks the owner would use them.

So . . . I am to faithfully use my life as God would use it and for His glory and purposes.

Not my own.