Holiness is tied to gladness.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

We need to get rid of this misconception that if you're going to be holy, that means

you're going to have purse lips, you're going to be dour, you're going to be sour-looking,

you're going to look like you're eating lemons all the time.

That is not true holiness.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015. Isn't it a great feeling when you get your house really clean?

It's easy to just straighten up, but there's something fulfilling about tackling germs,

scrubbing floors, getting in the corners, and under appliances.

It's also a great feeling to let God tackle the hidden places of our hearts

where sin tries to hide. Here's Nancy, continuing in a series called The Splendor of Holiness.

A family I know was trying to sell their house and had it on the market for over a year.

And sometimes they would go for weeks without anyone wanting to see the house. But then all of a sudden,

the realtor would call and say, can we show your house in 30 minutes? And you can imagine the

mad dash that would follow as the mom tried to get the house presentable. And in those frantic crisis moments,

she became really adept at transforming her lived-in house with very normal kid clutter

into a showcase in record time. She would laugh to me as she would explain how she got creative about this.

She'd learn how to stash laundry and dirty dishes and other out-of-the-place household items

in places that prospective buyers would be unlikely to look, like the clothes dryer.

She said they don't look in there.

Or in the back of the family suburban in the garage.

And by the time the realtor arrived with the prospective buyer, the family was nowhere to be seen.

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