I HAVE been on the receiving end of a lot of adverts on Facebook recently, particularly about cleaning products and, for me, anything which makes cleaning easier is to be welcomed.

Perhaps I did an internet enquiry about one product and suddenly many more manage to appear before me.

It seems to me as well that there has been a lot of improvements in the way cleaning products are effective, if you believe what all the adverts suggest, with grease and hardened foodstuffs whisked off in a jiffy.

Doggy foot marks disappear from the floor at a stroke and a new type of steel wool can take away years of stains and hardened food. Even the car gets a look in with products that take out score marks and scrapes in no time at all.

Now a bath or shower taken regularly should keep us clean on the outside but what gets us clean on the inside?

We might appear in good shape but it can be a different story when it comes to our behaviour, thoughts and deeds.

That’s where God and His words to us come in. He has the ability to clean out all our bad habits, sins and faults and clean out our impurities. And His Holy Spirit has the ability to come inside of our lives and change them for good. We just need to be willing for it to happen.

Over the years, I have heard stories of people trapped in alcoholism for much of their lives, released in an instant as God set them free.

Similarly, young and older men and women in the throes of drug addiction, some for decades, find release and relief from them.

God is great at this and we are not left with a vacuum as His Holy Spirit also fills us with love and thanks to God for setting us free and changing who we were to someone much better.

With spring hopefully with us before too long, thoughts turn to spring cleaning and they certainly need to in my household, and so I encourage us all to let God spring clean us through and through as well.

There is nothing He cannot do.