Brooms

Going to the Broom Closet

It’s a wise woman who grabs a broom when she has lost something of great value, and begins immediately sweeping the area where it disappeared. The woman in Luke’s gospel was such a person. She searched diligently till she found the cherished possession she lost. In fact, she swept the whole house before ultimately finding it.

I’ve been waiting some years now, watching to see when the Church will go to her broom closet. It has been most difficult for me to understand how she could lose her dearest and most treasured possession and not be concerned with her great loss. How like Samson the Church of today is. “And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.” Or as my dear old mentor, Dr, Joe Henry Hankins, used to preach, "Destitute, and unaware of it!"

Many once blessed churches now have indelibly written above their door, “Ichabod…The glory is departed…” The church then becomes a mortuary. They’re of no use to anyone but the mortician, grave digger, and the monument builder, who will inscribe on the tombstone what their church once was.

When Mary and Joseph lost Jesus, after three days of searching, they finally found Him where they left him. And so will any church that takes the time to do so. Revival is a re-discovery of Jesus.

New brooms sweep cleanest-but old brooms know where all the dirt is hidden!
(Dr. B.R. Lakin)