Kids have a way of shedding dirty shoes and clothes at earliest convenience and with little regard for any higher authority who will have to pick up those clothes, wash them, and arrange them for future use.
It is no different for those who receive the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit. The dirty laundry is His to clean. The clean laundry is His to bestow, and this He does gladly, just as Moms and Dads do for their kids, whom they love dearly despite all weakness and frailty because the kids are of the same flesh.
It is as real as Moms and Dads who love their kids, only on a more profound scale, toward a more glorious end that the Holy Son of God renews all of creation through His innocent suffering and death; through His rising again from the dead, all while bearing you up in the midst of the fading glory of this life and world.
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