Matthew 23v25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

Jesus loves to hit the pharisees in the mouth with His words of truth and wisdom; oh how true they still ring today. Being a follower is an every day fight and like the Pharisees it is easy to get caught up in the life we sometimes keep to ourselves, but we must first attend to what is working at us on the inside cleaning our inner most thoughts taking them captive to Christ through prayer, study and self reflection. With our insides clean then we can experience the immense joy of His blessing and righteousness found IN us not just on us.