With each piece of ungodly garbage I toss out I feel a little lighter, more free, and more peaceful. Thanks Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the work You are doing in me.

Forever In Need Of Spring Cleaning

Lord I carry so many chains around.

I feel like a slave shackled and bound. 

Free me from all my past.

Cleanse me from who I use to be.

Make me a new creation in You at last.

Have Your perfect way with me.

And day by day teach me right from wrong.

And day by day teach me Your ways.

Help me choose the right, help me to stand strong.

You in me and me in You O Lord may I be always.

Pack Rat

I am a pack rat. I am always keeping things with the thought that some day I will use this. I save all kinds of  things from egg cartons, plastic bags, and cardboard boxes to plastic pots that flowers come in. I also save cards people give me, scraps of paper, scraps of material, and yogurt containers and more! Some of these things really add up because I buy yogurt and eggs a lot and I have lots of plastic bags from the store. So finally spring cleaning rolls around and I force myself to get rid of some of it. But by fall cleaning it has some how bred and produced more. I must learn to put these things to use. I also need to ask myself  before I save an item, when am I going to use this stuff and, if I really will use this stuff. If  I can't give a good answer I have to throw it away. I feel it's time to simplify and get rid of  excess stuff. This goes for my spiritual life too. I need to get rid of excess unusable baggage that I keep carrying around. I need to throw away my past be it years ago or yesterday. The past is gone I want to live fresh and new today. God keeps giving me a new day and I am new in Him each day, why clutter it up with yesterdays that I wont relive. The thing I really need to keep from my past are lessons I learned. Guilt is another thing to throw away. Jesus takes away all my guilt and shame when I come to Him and confess and repent. Guilt tries to keep me in the past and focused on wrong things instead of right things.  Definitely want to throw away all hate and unforgiveness; it too tries to keep me in the past and I find it ugly and destructive as it tries to rob me of  joy, peace and health. I need to throw away low self esteem after all God gave His Son to ransom me, Jesus died for me, The Holy Spirit is willing to spend time on me every day and, I must be very useful and valuable now that I am totally committed and submitted to God for His purposes. Also I must throw away things I would use to do that I won't do no more. As I learn right and wrong I have to throw away the wrong and keep the right. I am sure as I check I will find more things to throw away. By the way I didn't mention throwing away anger, pride, ego, and other such trouble makers because these are things I have to deal with as they come up. Thanks to The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit I don't have to clean up my life alone they give me plenty of help. Besides I wouldn't do it and couldn't do it with out them.

Don't look back Luke 9:62, Throw out the guilt Romans 8:1-11, 1 John 1:9, Toss out hate and unforgiveness Matthew 18:21-35, 1John 2:9-11, Pitch out low self esteem John 3:16, 1 John 3:1-3, Toss out the garbage Romans 6:6, 2 Corinthians 5:17,1 Peter 1:13-14, Can't clean house with out Father, Son, Holy Spirit John 5:30, John15:5,John 16:5-15

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