Epitome of cleanness
There’s something appealing about cleanness that makes one to simply conflates it with beauty or maybe there’s correlation between beauty and cleanness. Cleanness attracts the subjects and makes us to be spell bound by its reflection. Woman adores cleanness and men worship it. Everyone is attracted by the concept of cleanness. Howbeit, something that is untidy does not appeal neither does it beg our attention. But take the same object wash and clean it then you will see humanity be drawn to it.
Jordan Peterson asserts that uncleanness and chaos reflects what going on in your mind. Thus entails that the chaos you see in someone’s house depicts the chaos in the mind. But the question of my reflection this morning is, why does cleanness begs our attention? And why do we scorn uncleanness?
There’s a famous phrase that says, “Cleanness goes with godliness”. This phrase is so popular to an extend that people assumes that it is a verse in the sacred writing but as my favorite writer J I parker once said, “there’s a grain of truth in every error” I assume that there are vital truth which we can deduce from this phraseology. Godliness entails reflection of a deity and this assumes that if a person is godly s/he is reflecting the nature or the perfections of the deity, which he/she espouses. Consequently, cleanness according to this phrase goes with godliness and this means that the perfection of the deity is clean or pure. I want to argue that cleanness attracts based on the fact that it mirrors the perfection of the deity. Therefore, if we are clean we reflect the deity to our society and since our community is thrilled by the deities just as the Greek gods used to incarnate and visit their community, so when we are clean we are like the gods that have visited the earth and the community is compelled to adore and worship cleanness.
Furthermore, we are attracted to cleanness because it depicts discipline. Yes! you heard me well discipline. The old Jackie Chan phrase, wax on and wax off. It takes discipline for one to be clean. Cleanness shows that s/he who is clean manifests the old ritual of daily cleaning his craft. Show me untidiness and I will show you lack of the daily ritual of discipline.
We as humans are horrified by chaotic disorder though we are born after the fall of Adam and we gravitate towards the fall every day of our lives. Uncleanness resembles and calls attention to what we are, “we are fallen human beings” but on the other hand, I want to argue that cleanness depicts a redemptive story. Study the primitive religion they all have the concept of washing and cleanness. All these narratives of the redemptive stories shows us that we yearn for the day when we shall all be clean from the impurity of this fallen world. Cleanness attracts because deep down in our hearts we yearn for the eschatological purity and cleanness.
By Kenosi Molato
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