House cleaning...you just know when it's time.
For me it was this week, having a real estate agent walking through my home and pointing out what needs to change. No one wants to pay for my garbage and mess to take on as their own.
Dust, grime and webs. It'll just sit there quietly (and patiently too, I might add). And all of a sudden, you look around and there it is. As you look around, you notice there's more. It's not pretty. You know that it's there, you cannot pretend it doesn't exist. So you begin the process. Perhaps you start with a broom and attempt the mess. You see that the broom is getting dirty and perhaps just spreading the webs and not really removing them. You get a damp cloth and start washing the walls and places where the webs and dust are. As you are wiping, you don't wash out the cloth enough and the dust is again getting smeared around and not getting all the dirt.
Until you are washing your cloth continually,sweeping intently and cleaning often, the dirt remains (and grows).
I have those webs. Lots of them. I've tried to clean them only to see them shining brightly in the right light. Sometimes I don't notice them unless there are pointed out to me. I don't want them. I want to have a home where the dust and grime don't find comfort and have a place to fall. I want clean.
I have been making a concentrated effort to remove the webs. It's a slow process. Sometimes I feel freedom from them and then see them shimmering in the light. When I thought I've dealt with them and I think they are gone, they show up. I really desire to remove the dust, grime a.k.a. bitterness, resentment and weaknesses of my life. I feel I'm ready to move on and something happens, and I can't let go. Perhaps I feel safer hiding behind the pain, using these webs as a crutch. Though I desire healing, strength and growth; the pain, immaturity and my selfishness creeps in and allows the webs to take hold of me again.
So again, I start the process to clean. Praying and desiring to lean on God's power to do it..and not my own strength.
7 comments:
ahhhh yes. such a good reminder. so true. and...did i miss something???? are you moving????? xoo
Oh those webs...start high and then work low. ;-) ~in the physical. Bow low in the spiritual and let God clean out the webs...thus gaining access eventually to the higher areas.
I have a lot of webs. God has been having me hear a lot lately (over the past few months) of how others perceive me. The words have not always been soothing or edifying to my heart.
However, I need to take them before the Lord and ask Him what He wants to do with *me* I think I need a Holy Spirit makeover, seriously.
It is not in my time, nor yours sweet friend, but in allowing the Holy Spirit to move in freedom in our lives.
Kimmie
mama to 7
one homemade and 6 adopted
good post!
Oh I hear ya! I started out the year housecleaning my spirit - again! Why do I always let myself get so behind in my God-walk? Now I'm tackling my house! That seems to be easier and hurts my pride a little less... :) Thanks for the great post.
Wow, your words spoke straight to my heart... thanks for opening up about it.
That was good. I too need to clean out my spirit.
Thanks.
Such good words to hear. It's a daily process of cleaning, ugh, that is dreaded before you start, but with the Lord, becomes such a sweet process. Praying for you as you clean inside and out.
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