Cleaning Out or Covering Up

So today I was sitting in my office looking at my desk and how cluttered it was so I began to clean it off, now if you know me I am a streak cleaner, if I start I get into a rhythm and start cleaning everything, so from my desk I moved into my drawer, you know the place where you stuff everything when you are cleaning you desk off. WOW, I guess I hadn't looked in there in a long time because it was about to explode out, while my desk looked ok on the outside, my desk drawer was so unbelievably cluttered that I didn't even know what was in there. And I got to thinking how much this is like my Christian walk. We do a quick clean on the outside so that we are presentable to whoever but the reality is the stuff is still there it is just getting buried deeper and deeper under the mess of sin and guise of religion. I think that it is so easy and so much of our culture to strive and desire the quick fix that we rarely, if ever take the time to deal with what is really under the surface. Then this verse popped into my mind, 1 John 1:9-10- "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us."

How often do we confess, not just with our mouth, but with our heart, and deal with the sin that so easily distracts us from our pursuit of the Holy? I think none of us would say with our mouths that we have not sinned but how many of us live lives of confession and repentance. Today remember He desires to cleanse us, not just on the outside but deep on the inside, take your junk to Him deal with it and give it to Him and strive hard to put it to death and trust that He will move in your life so powerfully that you find yourself closer to Him and desiring Him more then you ever have before.

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