But, they're not dirty

Wash your hands before you eat!  How many times as a child did you hear those words?  Or, as a parent, how many times did you shout them to your own children.  “Wash your hands before you eat”.  And of course, they would look and examine their hands and say, “why, they’re not dirty”.

To them, they probably didn’t look dirty on the outside, but we all know the germs, the hidden bacteria that makes a home on our hands. So, we wash our hands before you eat so we don’t get sick.

That’s what Jesus is telling us today. It’s not how pretty or clean we look on the outside, it’s what is in our heart. Is our heart clean enough for Jesus to live?

 St. Augustine had a very well known saying, “Late have I loved you, O, Lord”.

It is never too late to clean our hearts, clean the inside, so to speak, and when the inside is clean, then and only then, can we love Jesus with all our heart. Amen