Clutter

My son and I are in the beginning stages of packing boxes and looking for a place to move in to.  When you live in a place, you start buying items to decorate your house and you go to yard sales to get things that you never needed in the first place.  When it comes time to move, you find that during your stay in the house, you've become a pack rat and you have more possessions than you know what to do with.  So, you begin to wade through all of your possessions, put what you "don't need" in a yard sale, only to start over again once you reach your new destination.  I know I can't be the only mom that does this..... I hope!   Moving has always been one of the things that I just detest.  I love once all the boxes and furniture are in the new place and the decoration begins, but I really dislike everything that occurs before that. 

Tonight I was sitting in my chair thinking of all the things that needed to be done and I begin thinking about possessions.  Many times in our quest to get more things or the quest to find that one special thing that would look good in that one special place, our possessions become clutter.  No one likes clutter, but everyone has it.

Our lives are a lot like our houses.  When we are first saved we begin reading our Bible, having our quiet time with God, going to church any time we can and craving for spiritual things.  Then slowly but surely the Devil starts bringing things into our lives and he convinces us that we just have to have the world's toys so we soon begin allowing those things to enter into our lives and then our lives become like our house, cluttered.  We forget to have our devotions because there are so many worldly things in our lives that blind us and demand our attention.  We can't see spritual things any more because the worldly possessions have us blinded to the things of God.  There is a saying that goes like this, "One man's trash is another man's treasure"  Don't make the trash of the world your treasure and don't let your children do it either.

Let's determine to clean house, get rid of the worldly clutter, get back to family devotions, praying together and going to church.   Let's clean house!