THE COCKROACH THEOLOGY: The Art Of Spiritual Pest Control

The German Cockroach...with the egg that houses 40 little baby roaches.
The cockroach is a nasty little insect...that can be in million dollar mansions...or filthy shacks...and everywhere inbetween. The presence of a cockroach does not necessarily indicate a "dirty house"...however...it does not necessarily exclude a "dirty house." Many moons ago...in my colorful work career...I was an Orkin Pest Control Service Technician. My job...go to a customer's house...and kill the bugs. Have you ever got up in the middle of night to get a drink of water...turned on your light in the kitchen... and saw a roach...or roaches scurry away? The little buggers...cannot stand the light. Just like sin and the flesh nature cannot stand the light. "And thisis the message we have heard from Him and announce to you...that GOD IS LIGHT and in Him there is no DARKNESS at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness...we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we WALK IN THE LIGHT as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all SIN." (I John 1:5-7)When I would go into someone's home...and it is obvious that they have not cleaned their house in years...they always say..."I haven't had time to clean today." Years of ingoring the dirty things in our lives...will result in INFESTATION. I went to one house...and sprayed my powder that runs the cockroach out of their hiding place...and it was like a COCKROACH ATOMIC BOMB. The roaches will run from the nest...and run UP...to the ceiling. This one particular house...the walls became black with the roaches...the ran up the walls and began to rain down like our recent rains here in Tennessee...falling on my head...down my shirt...all around. I invented a new dance called THE COCKROACH STOMP.When the cockroach is subjected to THE LIGHT...they scurry back into their nest. The exacerbated problem is...when the cockroaches are out and about in the broad daylight. The reason they are in the broad daylight...is because the nest is full.Sin...and the deeds of the flesh are like cockroaches in our lives. One or two may appear...but before you know it...if you don't deal with them...the egg of sin...that houses multiple things in our lives...will explode and becomes an exponential phenom. Oh...they may only come out at night like the cockroach...but after a while...like the deeds of the flesh...they become EVIDENT. (Galatians 5:119-21)In the natural...cockroaches are subjected to the bottom of my feet...and chemicals. In the spiritual... sin and the flesh are subjected to FEET also."And I will put enmity between you and the woman...and between your seed and her seed; He shall BRUISE you on the head...and you shall bruise him on the HEEL." (Genesis 3:15)"...These are in accordance with the WORKING OF THE STRENGTH OF HIS MIGHT...which He brought about IN CHRIST (yoke destroying, burden lifting, oppression removing, healing power of the Holy Ghost)...when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and EVERY NAME THAT IS NAMED (including sin, flesh, and cockroaches) not only in this age, but also in the one to come. And He put ALL THINGS (including sin, flesh and cockroaches) IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEED, and gave Him as head over all things to the church...which is HIS BODY (that would be you)...the fulness of Him who fills all in all." (Ephesians 1:19-22)"And the God of peace will soon CRUSH satan (little s) under YOUR FEET." (Romans 16:20)We have many resources to deal with the fleshly cockroaches and sin patters in our lives including:The Word of God, The Spirit of God, The Authority of the Believer, The Body of Christ, The Gifts of the Spirit, The Fruit of the Spirit. Love...etc.Soooooooooooooooo....it's time to DANCE...the old COCKROACH STOMP...crunch, crunch, crunch.

Love and Stompin Kisses

Rodney "PEST CONTROL" Boyd
Rodney Boyd at 7:44am May 18

After I published this...I thought of the two main resources to deal with the flesh, sin, tempation and cockroaches...D.B.R...DEATH, BURIAL, RESURRECTION...NOTHING MORE...NOTHING LESS...THE CROSS...and THE BLOOD OF JESUS.