Why Did She Say to Me, “You’re Good.”

A housing inspector came to look over my apartment, which is done every year to make sure everything is in good working order. She only said two words to me the whole ten minutes that she was here, “You’re good,” but it wasn’t in the tone of, “You’re good to go.” She saw my manger scene, my 24-inch Cross, my t-shirt that says, “Normal isn’t Coming Back, Jesus Is. Revelation 14,” and saw the clean comfort of my apartment. The thing is, I don’t walk around through their society and say to others, “You’re good,” just because the community looks clean. Is the community trying to prove how good they are by their cleanliness? Or do they need their conscience reinforced with encouraging words of how good they are?

Hospitals, prisons, mental health facilities, schools, etc. are no sign that the world is on its way to a Godly world. Those facilities are usually spic-and-span clean. I’ve walked through those places, and they are extremely clean. The lights of the ceiling bounce off of the very polished floors and the walls are clean as well. None of that spotlessness has anything to do with the cleanliness of the people who reside in those places. Of course, there bodies are very clean in every external way possible. Hospitals require their patients to be clean, mental health facilities require their patients to practice the proper hygiene, school personnel require their students to be free from the abuse of filthiness, and prisoners are required to shower. None of that cleanliness relates to being washed in the Blood of the Lamb of God.

The apartment complex where I live demands cleanliness with very specific rules for renters. Nothing is to be left on patio spaces except for one bike and a bar-b-que grill. Nothing is to be hung on the outside walls, including no hanging of flags. Pet poop has to be picked up immediately after the pet dumps it. Trees are always trimmed, and the grass is mowed every week. There are very specific rules about dumping trash and which dumpsters to use. There are specific rules about how cars are to be parked, how many cars can be owned, and how they are maintained. With all of that orderliness and cleanliness, the residents are far from living a life with clean hands and a pure heart. They have no interest in knowing about God, do not feel a need for Salvation through Jesus Christ, and trample over the Holy Spirit.

The world seems to have the idea that their cleanliness is next to Godliness, but they are far from what God’s grace expects through Jesus Christ. When they say, “You’re good,” to a Christian it sounds like mockery or disdain and is far from sincere. My hometown banned the motorcycle rodeo from ever being hosted by the city again. The citizens gave a standing ovation because finally the city would be cleansed from the “dirty stain” on their landscape. No more would anyone have to risk seeing public sex, public drunkenness, public violence, public drug use, etc. Even still, it’s the same society that discards the need for Jesus Christ, tramples over the Holy Spirit, and serves the mark of the beast as God. The following describes those who work so hard at cleaning their community,

“They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful;
they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 
they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.”
Romans 1:29-31

It’s not those with the cleanest apartments, or the cleanest city, or the cleanest public facilities, or the cleanest world that will see God. The pure in heart will see God.

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”
Matthew 5:8

The pure in heart are those who come to God through Jesus Christ. It is by the Blood of Christ that a person is cleansed. A person is not cleansed by rules, regulations, ordinances, laws, and constitutions. A person will never see God by building an earthly utopia. The pure in heart will see God through the eyes of the heart and will also see God in the New Jerusalem.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11