It All Piles Up
My life is currently a whirlwind. I'm in the process of writing curriculum for women's small groups and teaching it in Heart to Heart every Thursday night, helping my husband preach this weekend, the Board of Directors are coming in Monday for their annual meeting, my daughter, Jen, came home from South Africa unexpectedly but totally in the will of God (it is time for her to start her ministry, Recklessly Abandoned) a friend of my son's from Michigan came to live with us, my son's fiance' visa came through and I have a wedding to plan in 7 weeks with all of the trimmings including showers. Needless to say there are some things in my life that are piling up, and that is probably the reason for this word picture. May God bless you and help you with your own whirlwind lifestyles...Picture…a woman in a laundry room with high-speed photography. The more laundry the woman does, the more it seems to pile up. In exhaustion, the woman wipes her sweating brow and looks around at the laundry piling up and declares, “I’m done!” She walks out of the laundry room and the laundry room is instantly organized with each piece of laundry neatly folded.
Hear…the Lord say, “Life goes on. There will continually be hurt, decisions and frustration because it is all a part of the life experience. And because it is a part, your spirit needs to be “cleansed” on a regular basis. Don’t think to yourself, ‘ I can handle this…I am dealing with this.’ I don’t want you dealing with all of this, not by yourself. I want you to release it into My Hand. I want you to let go, so that I can heal you, cleanse you and wash you from everyday junk so that it doesn’t pile up, and you become overwhelmed. Purposefully, and periodically release it all into My Hands.”
Consider: You know what I hate about laundry? It doesn’t stay done. You work to get it all caught up and within a few days it is all heaped up again. But I have found that most of life is that way. You mow the grass and it grows again. You wash the car and it has to get washed again. You clean off your desk and it has to get cleaned off again. You take a shower, and low and behold you have to take another one. Therefore it shouldn’t surprise us that our inner man has to be cleansed on an ongoing basis. When you walk through this life, stuff has an annoying habit of clinging to you. No matter how spiritual you might think you are, you still get traffic tickets, the kids still get sick, the boss still yells at you for no reason, and smoke detectors still go off while you are cooking. Life happens to all of us…the big stuff and the little stuff. The big stuff we take to God, but the little stuff we consider of such little importance that we just sweep it under the rug. The problem is that it does pile up. Then it becomes a feast for the little critters like ants and even mice…yuck. It’s important that we don’t ignore the small annoyances of life, nor try to handle them on our own. Turn everything over to the Lord on a daily basis and let him direct you how to deal with it in a healthy and godlike manner. There is a saying, “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” I agree, but neither should you ignore it. Release it all into God’s Hands, big and small so that it doesn’t pile up.
Pray…”Lord, I have a habit of ignoring some things until they pile so high that I have a major problem on my hands. I’m sorry for that. Help me to yield all of my life to you on a daily basis regardless of how small or big the problems might be. Help me to remember that I don’t have to deal with them alone; in fact, it is best that I do not. I give you every part of my life, the little irritations, the big frustrations, and the everyday choices that I make. I give you my life completely, and unreservedly, in Jesus Name, Amen.”
posted by pastorc @ 9:56 AM
1 Comments:
This is such a timely Word. I let my office go and when my mother passed, my husband's office took a HUGE hit because I cluttered with things of my mom's that I needed to go through. They were originally in the guest room, but we had a guest so I had to move them. Anyway, I had a plan of how things should be cleaned up and needless to say the offices weren't first on my list. God's plan was different. The Holy Spirit kept nudging me to work on my office, then my husband's. This didn't make a lot of sense to me since I wanted clean out the storage locker we were paying for on a monthly basis, but I listened to the Holy Spirit and started working on my office. Just like the laundry room, when I submitted to Lord and obeyed things fell into place. My husband cleaned up his office in one night. It would have taken me weeks to do what he did. I am so glad I listened, we have been blessed in ways I could never have imagined, including not having to clean my husband's office by myself.
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