Clutter

 

I slept in late Saturday morning … 6:30 am to be exact.  That may not be late for you, but it is for me.  I went into the kitchen and started the coffee.  I cycled a load of clothes in the washer and dryer, stripped my bed to wash the sheets, and started down the hallway when I saw the morning sun streaming in from the front door glass.  Its mellow warmth lit a spot on the floor.  The sunlight washed the hallway at an interesting angle spotlighting hair, dust, and lint.  I dust the LVP floor almost every day, but the sun didn’t lie.  Even though I clean regularly, life happens, hair falls out, and lint materializes from seemingly nowhere.  The same in my spiritual life.  I read my Bible, I pray, and I attend church regularly.  But clutter happens.  Daily activities and daily problems fill my life, and before I know it, the good Lord is pushed out.  Days turn into weeks, and my heart grows cold.  Often, God must send sickness and tragedy to wake me up.  I call to the Lord in time of need, and He is always there, patiently waiting for his wandering son to come home.  God is ever-present, but I forget.  Moses spoke a challenge from the good Lord to his people in Deuteronomy 30:19&20, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days …”  May I not forget the Lord.  May I clean out the clutter in my spiritual life, is my prayer.  So … what about you?