Rubbish is a human problem, not only in the environment about us, but sadly also in the human heart. Rubbish hinders progress in building. Construction cannot satisfactorily be accomplished until the rubbish is removed. The Holy Spirit builds us up with His word of grace. We also are endeavouring to build up ourselves, for we are builders together with God. Alas we sometimes feel we make little progress for we seem always to find heaps of rubbish within us. We compare our heart with the pure heart of our Lord and our spirits drop. Our strength seems so taken up with laying aside, casting out and cleaning. There is the rubbish of pride, of impatience, of anger, of sadness, of fear, of lusts, of self pity, of vain thoughts, of time wasting, of coldness and heaps upon heaps as we discover more of our own inner workings. Everything that would come between us and Christ is as rubbish, as Paul says, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ” (Philippians 3:8). It all has to go. And bless God, for us there is a fountain opened into which we can cast all our pollutions (Zechariah 13:1). There is a place we can take all the rubbish. “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14).