Deep Cleaning

 

Marleen has a Yeti cup that is great!  It keeps hot liquids hot (like coffee) and cold liquids cold (like ice water).  But the other day, as I tried to get her cup extra clean, I noticed that there were different parts to the lid.  I snapped the closure slide off and removed the rubber gasket.  Both had gunk underneath them.  After some Dawn Powerwash, they smelled and looked fresh.  Hey, often I need a tune up in my spirit too.  I become critical and look at others more than looking to myself.  But after all, the only one that I can really do anything about is me.  And I am better off if I take care of me and let you take care of you.  Matthew 7:5, “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.”

Give It to God

 

I saw a great decal on a car window last week in the Walmart parking lot.  It read, “Give it to God and go to sleep.”  How often do we worry over things that are out of our control?!  The owner of this car had it right.  Whatever the problem is in life, give it to God and go to sleep.  Psalm 127:1&2, “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.  It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.”

Wool Dryer Balls

 

Do you use those little wool dryer balls?  I do and I hate them.  Every time that I get my clothes out of the dryer, it’s an Easter egg hunt to find all of them.  I find them in a pants leg or in my underwear.  They love to hide in the corners of fitted sheets.  I think that I have found all of them, but when I count them, one is missing.  I go through the dry clothes once again but come up empty handed. Then I step on one that had rolled away unnoticed.  Hey, my dryer balls are like members of our church.  If everyone showed up at the same time, there wouldn’t be enough room in the building to hold everyone.  Our pastor chases members around like me chasing dryer balls.  Hebrews 10:25, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”