A Clean House

I woke up the other morning and somehow the same house that I cleaned what felt like ten times that week, was once again dirty. It boggles my mind how my small house gets out of order so quickly with myself (the tornado),a husband (cleanfreak), and a two toddlers (that act like they are in WWF). I think about all the work it takes for my house to appear to be in order, then out of no where...dirty house.

I guess it starts small. Crumbs on the counter top that stands out like crazy. And I guess since you have already compromised your standards, it's not that big of a deal that there is a pile of opened mail strewn across the kitchen table, living room couch, and anywhere else there may have been empty counterspace. Before you know it, your trash can is over flowing onto the floor, you have about 5 loads of laundry that you need to fold, and you've been sitting on the couch for 4 hours watching tv, facebook, or online shopping without a shower for the day.

I was reading my bible the other day and after reading this I really had to ask myself...

When was the last time I took inventory of my relationship with God? When was the last time, after looking through everything in my life, did I clean house?

As I looked into this, I realized that I have so many things in my life that I could just throw away. Things that I thought held importance but in the grand scheme of the Kingdom of God, are just silly. Things that took up my time that didn't benefit me or glorify Him at all. Relationships that lost their luster a long time ago that I held onto out of fear. The list goes on...

How did I end up with such a long list? Compromise. It starts with one seemingly small compromise, which leads to a little less small compromise, which in the end leads to a messy house. I sometimes wonder if this is simply how we get into the biggest messes of our lives?

But then there is Grace. The thing that says, I've already paid for your mistakes...just turn towards Me. Words fail to describe how thankful I am for this. I would still be trying to undo my list from years and years ago of things I used to occupy my time and life with rather than build a meaningful relationship with my Daddy in Heaven.

So...I've decided, it's time to clean house.
:)