Spring Into Cleaning

Today we’ve been doing a lot of cleaning and repairing to the house.  We’ve repaired small holes in walls, painted small knicks and stains that have accumulated over the last few years and we stained the front door.  While we were at it, we washed the outside of the house, washed the windows and swept the patios.  It was kind of funny.  As we started cleaning and washing we would find other things we needed to clean or repair.  So we made a list of what we wanted to do. 

We all pitched in and got just about everything we needed to do accomplished.  It took a little effort, but we got it done. 

While carrying out a load of trash, Donna points out to Connor that we’ve been living with a lot of clutter in our house.  She then asked a very important question.  “Why haven’t we taken it out sooner?  We would have felt so much better about ourselves if we would have done this before now.  We just get used to it being there and learn to live with it”.  Connor says, “That will preach, Mom”. 

We do let a lot of garbage and clutter build up in our lives and we do learn to live with it.  We have a little bitterness piled up in the corner of our heart, a little doubt and unbelief sitting on the sofa of our mind and in the back room of the conscience there’s a cobweb of lies that’s been there for a few years.  We see it every day, but we learn to walk by and ignore it.    

Before long, the clutter begins to build and we begin to make excuses as to why we’re not doing anything to correct it.  We’re too tired or we don’t have time to do anything about it now are just some of the lies we tell ourselves.  Before we can turn around, we have a room full of filth that had we taken care of it sooner, we probably would’ve felt so much better about ourselves and our living conditions. 

First John 1:8-9 tells us, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.  9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”. 

As soon as the clutter and garbage starts to build, take the time to get it cleaned out.   Don't wait, do something about it immediately.  Psalms 51 is David’s prayer he prayed when Nathan the Prophet came to him about his affair with Bathsheba.  He asked God for mercy, to wash him, cleanse him, purge him, to create a clean heart and restore joy into his life.  David didn’t wait until he had time or wait until he felt like it to get his life cleaned up.  He did it right then, right there.  No procrastination. 

So as we enter into the Spring season and we begin our cleaning routines check your mind, your heart and your spirit. Pray Psalms 139:23-24, “Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting”.  You’ll feel better about yourself and the living conditions of your soul. 

Just a thought on a page….