One of the most frustrating experiences as a parent is buying groceries only to find them left out and gone bad. Maybe it’s a gallon of milk that wasn’t put back in the fridge, or a cereal box left open, so the cereal is stale. We want to keep groceries fresh because they are valuable! But there are some things that we should not keep fresh.
Jeremiah 6:7 says of Jerusalem, “As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.” What a word picture! Jerusalem treated evil like a precious resource. Evil was something they clung to and relied on. It was something they valued.
Could the same be said of you? Do you do all you can to purge evil from your life, or is it something you cling to and value? Has evil been put away, or is it kept fresh in your heart?