tidy as you go

Within your heart, what can be found?

Do light and warmth and joy abound?

Or is there darkest night and need?

Then listen well and take good heed:

Clean up inside your heart,

And put evil far away.

It's painful at the start,

But it will not stay that way.

Be quick and make things right.

Your life will then be bright.

Clean up inside your heart; do it today!

If you have said an evil word

So others have been badly hurt,

Then ask forgiveness and be bold

Before your heart gets hard and cold.
Almond Blossom 51

Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean,..
‭‭John‬ ‭13‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.”
‭‭I Peter‬ ‭3‬:‭21‬-‭22‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭26‬-‭27‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭2‬-‭3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭30‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭13‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭23‬-‭24‬ ‭NKJV‬‬