A little wind can be a pleasant thing to experience. The gentle breeze caresses the field of flowers, bringing a pleasing aroma to our nostrils. The cooling effects of a summer zephyr washing our brow is like a drink of cool water to our tongue.
Up the tempo, and the wind becomes something different. It can kick up dust, leaves, and given enough force, even cars and houses.
Things become caught up in the wind, and they are gone from us, ours no more.
Some things we want to be caught up in the wind. The smoke from a raging fire. Pollen and allergens. Leaves falling from the trees. We want them gone, because they don’t make our lives more enjoyable. Rather, they surround us with a rancid detritus that takes the joy from our days.
We need the wind.
Matthew 3:12 tells us:
“His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
What does chaff have to do with wind? Chaff is lightweight, the first thing carried away in the lightest breeze. Chaff is the cast off from the good grain, and we want it gone from our lives.
Hosea 13:3 tells us something similar:
“Therefore they shall be like the morning mist or like the dew that goes early away, like the chaff that swirls from the threshing floor or like smoke from a window.”
What in our lives needs to be carried away by the wind, gone like the smoke from a window? Whatever it is, we need to let it go, to be carried away, clearing the air of our lives.
Psalm 1:1-4 gives us the good and the bad:
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.”
When the chaff of sin collects around us, we no longer live in the purity of the Lord. It’s only when we let the wind of God’s breath blow those things away that we once again become prosperous for him.
Jesus clears away the junk from our lives, if only we release ourselves unto him.
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