I am here in the office waiting for a delivery. I thought I would take advantage of this time and blog about it! For the last five years we have used the small office in my home to store donations for Holding Out Hope, our nonprofit that brings the truth of Christ to women who are incarcerated. While it has been a BLESSING to receive donations of books and Bibles... it has created a surplus of boxes in my office. Today the 10 x 16 storage building the ministry has purchased will arrive. I am truly excited! This will be such a help to the ministry and our volunteers. And this woman can reclaim her work space!
Waiting in the middle of the stack of boxes just got me thinking about the process we all find ourselves in. It is so easy to collect things. A little fear here. A bit of anger there. A pinch of gossip. A stack of worry. Soon we are stepping over what accumulates so easily in our lives.
I've been stepping over more than boxes lately. If I am not fully in the Word and focused on Him I am in a pile of mess before you know it! And removing those boxes is a process. It takes time to clean out what has taken up so much space!
And Jesus really is our storage building. Cast all your cares on him means ALL. Pile it ALL on Him. He can handle it. He has plenty of room. And God doesn't keep an invetory of what we unload. He takes it and disposes of it... far, far away.
I don't really know what it will feel like to see the floor of my office again. Or the walls. And I look forward to it. I will be motivated to keep it clean!
I want to feel what it is like to have plenty of room for HIM in the rooms of my heart. I am in process. Are you? Guess we all are. But in order for change to occur, we must invite Him into our collections. To give Him full authority to put what does not belong in us onto the "discard" pile. Easier said than done. Some days I cling to my fear instead of trading it for His courage.
But I will not quit.
I will continue to open the door of my life and give God access.
Because I want to see the walls of my heart neatly decorated with HIS art for my life. And I want lots of room on the floor so we can dance.
I'm in the process of making room...
3 comments:
wow Tina... I always knew you'd grow up to be someone very special. I predicted when we were in high school that you'd go on to be a singer... check!
Quite a blog there... you write so beautifully, you put the no non-sense this is it.. the way it is.. the clutter in our lives. How true you are. I've slowly been cleaning my space out too inside and out, and it is quite accurate that we do allow clutter into our hearts and souls too. Thanks for writing this, I really needed this today!
Time to get busy de-cluttering!!!
We all knew she would be very special someday...she was always bigger than life even in highschool. Her words and songs touch so many. Back than and still today. I feel blessed to have known her and to have sang beside her in school. I don't think any one heard the rest of us; the message was always to come from her. She is so very blessed and I am glad she is using the gifts God gave her. ;)
Starr
Tina,
Sometimes, it seems that if we won't de-clutter our hearts, God will just commence to doing it Himself. And boy does that get painful. I so want to be obedient to do the de-cluttering work myself.
Great post, my friend. I pray that all is well with you.
Leah
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