Hi,
Over the years, I've put together a number of simple spiritual lessons I've discovered in things that we all see everyday, but rarely think about. I call them life lessons--for lack of a more original name, and I think some may find them interesting, and maybe even useful.
Anyway, I'm not sure what catagory these fit in, but unless I hear otherwise, this one seems to me to be the most fitting. Anyway, here is the first life lesson: (input welcome)
Cleaning the clutter
Over the years, we sometimes accumulate items for which we have no immediate use, but are reluctant to throw away, either on the off-chance we may need them later, or because of some irrational and misplaced sentimental value. Quite often this goes on until the items start to pile up in the garage. Often, a garage is so full of such clutter that the carâ€â€for which it was designedâ€â€cannot fit inside.
As time goes by, we realize that we really need to get rid of the objects, since they serve no purpose other than taking up space, but keep putting off taking any action. Instead, we continue to work around the junk, vowing all the while, that we will get around to disposing of it one dayâ€â€even as we continue to add more items.
In a similar way, we sometimes accumulate mental and emotional junk that does nothing more than clutter up our minds. It might be some wrong done to us that we refuse to let go of, a wrong of our own for which we have not yet forgiven ourselves, regrets or misgivings about bad choices we’ve made, or even morose ponderings of what might have been….if only.
Such emotional clutter should not be harbored by the child of God, for they are all negative, unfruitful things that cause stress, hinder our relationship with God, and--as with the garage--take up space in our hearts and minds that the Lord desires to fill with good and positive things that belong there.
It’s time to throw away the unfruitful clutter we have been holding onto. Simply refuse to let another day go by without disposing of it once and for all.
(And then take care of that garage)!
Yours in Christ,
Randy
Over the years, I've put together a number of simple spiritual lessons I've discovered in things that we all see everyday, but rarely think about. I call them life lessons--for lack of a more original name, and I think some may find them interesting, and maybe even useful.
Anyway, I'm not sure what catagory these fit in, but unless I hear otherwise, this one seems to me to be the most fitting. Anyway, here is the first life lesson: (input welcome)
Cleaning the clutter
Over the years, we sometimes accumulate items for which we have no immediate use, but are reluctant to throw away, either on the off-chance we may need them later, or because of some irrational and misplaced sentimental value. Quite often this goes on until the items start to pile up in the garage. Often, a garage is so full of such clutter that the carâ€â€for which it was designedâ€â€cannot fit inside.
As time goes by, we realize that we really need to get rid of the objects, since they serve no purpose other than taking up space, but keep putting off taking any action. Instead, we continue to work around the junk, vowing all the while, that we will get around to disposing of it one dayâ€â€even as we continue to add more items.
In a similar way, we sometimes accumulate mental and emotional junk that does nothing more than clutter up our minds. It might be some wrong done to us that we refuse to let go of, a wrong of our own for which we have not yet forgiven ourselves, regrets or misgivings about bad choices we’ve made, or even morose ponderings of what might have been….if only.
Such emotional clutter should not be harbored by the child of God, for they are all negative, unfruitful things that cause stress, hinder our relationship with God, and--as with the garage--take up space in our hearts and minds that the Lord desires to fill with good and positive things that belong there.
It’s time to throw away the unfruitful clutter we have been holding onto. Simply refuse to let another day go by without disposing of it once and for all.
(And then take care of that garage)!
Yours in Christ,
Randy
