Monday, January 31, 2011

Bathrooms and GOD?


I knew I had to write my weekly blog and I asked the LORD today to help me with a topic…
Oh boy did HE ever….

I’ve wanted to have a garage sale and have a cleaner and more organized home… I started that journey today…Again…Ha!  I found that no matter how clean I think I am,  I’m still dirty…I started in my bathrooms…Under the counters, in the drawers and wherever else things hide…I found such unnecessary things…It’s always something that’s saved for later…
Well, not today I’m determined to clean it out!  One of my pet peeves in cleaning is hair…Ewwww, I cringe…Even if it’s my own hair when I’m cleaning out a brush… I get grossed out…So here I am going through stuff I normally don’t clean and there’s hair and just yuck in the corners of the draw and under the counters …It’s my hair, my husband’s hair, the kids hair…Or, maybe I didn’t wipe far enough 5 years ago when we moved in and it’s hair from another….Ughhhh, I’ll vomit!!  Anyway, it’s dirty under there…I don’t care how clean you are…Go and look in the draw where you keep your brushes…Or under the counters, allll the way in the back…There’s a place hidden under there with dirt…So I’m wiping, I’m wiping…I’m grossed out…I don’t rinse the sponge cause it’s too dirty…I throw the sponge out…Get a new sponge….Wiping, wiping….Then it’s hits me… 
I’M THIS  BATHROOM!!  I’m dirty just like this bathroom… Yuck!

I was thinking if I died people would have to come and clean out my home…Gosh, they would get into the corners of those drawers and behind stuff…They would see every nook and cranny of my life…They would see deep into things that I don’t want to see…
Am I really going to go out like that, dirty? I could do something can’t I? Even though it will still be dirty again tomorrow and the next day, I still have to do something…So what is there to do?  Daily washing, daily cleansing, daily scrubbing…Daily in the Word!


Do I walk out into the world spiritually clean by the Word?  Or maybe I got up to fast from my quiet time because of all the things I have to do?  Do I really sit at the foot of the Cross long enough for my daily washing, cleansing, and scrubbing?  At times, not long enough…
There’s so much my Father in Heaven has for me…My Father in Heaven won’t cringe, or vomit, or say yuck when HE’S cleaning me…Instead, HE waters my soul, HE’S my River of Life…And HE hung on the Cross for everything that I need daily in my life….I stop, I sit, I breath in the aroma of HIS Word…Aaaahhhhh!!! Soooo nice…Thank you LORD JESUS for renewing my mind and my soul…Thank you for who You are...

Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me…… 
Psalm 51:10 

Now when I go out, I’m going out clean and when I really go out I’ll already be clean!! Praise JESUS!!

(Cut & Paste this link for a song that fits perfect for this post-“Wash Over Me”-By Pricilla Miller)        http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/priscilla-miller/id278963633

2 comments:

  1. Awesome! I am so dirty right now! No, really dirty, I have been cleaning all day too! Great analogy girl...

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  2. Great post! This is definitely my most often prayed verse. Create in me a clean heart!!

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