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DO YOU PRACTICE MORAL HYGIENE?
“Practice moral cleanliness and moral purity on a personal level.”
So, what is moral Hygiene? Moral Hygiene has to do with being able to practice the purest moral standards at a personal level especially where no one is looking. E.g., People condemn beer publicly but drink privately and some people say ‘I hate liars’ meantime they are chief liars themselves.
They say it’s wrong to steal, meantime they steal at work in a major way. They talk of faithfulness in relationships and marriage yet they are masters at cheating on their partner. For them, it’s talking the standard, and then do the opposite and make sure you don’t get caught. So, when you talk and practice a standard publicly and then turn to practice the opposite privately, you must question your moral hygiene.
It’s more like what Jesus spoke about the Pharisees in Matthew 23:27–28 NIV — “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside, you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.” Maybe you say stealing is bad only because society says stealing is bad. But until stealing is bad for you on a personal level, you must question your moral hygiene.
I encourage you today. Clean up on the inside. Bad must be bad to you privately as well. Wrong things must be wrong to you personally. So here is a challenge for you as you begin the weekend: Practice moral cleanliness and moral purity on a personal level.
