I am a clean freak. When my environment around me is clean...my mind and spirit seem to be more at ease. When it's not clean...I become a crazy woman...a real stress magnet. Even though I know this, sometimes when life gets so busy, I find it very hard to maintain the cleanliness of my house. I have two cats, a dog, a husband, and two grown boys living at home right now...and it's seemingly almost impossible when running from one place to another to keep up with the day to day mess. If even one day goes by where I don't clean, my house can look like a bomb exploded. One day of saying...I can't do this... and whammo, I will have to spend hours cleaning to get it back in order and have my sanity and inner peace restored. I've noticed the same can happen with our hearts and spiritual lives.
When we spend time with God on a daily basis, focusing on His Word, a cleaning and refreshing is actually taking place. God is not only renewing our mind (making it fresh), He's purifying our hearts and renewing our spirits. Psalm 51:10 - Create in me a clean heart oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. When we don't spend time with God, we will begin to notice our spirits become cluttered. We'll not react to situations in a Godly way, our peace will be robbed, our joy will be robbed, our spiritual vision will become blurry, and our hearts will become hard. When we are in the Word everyday, God has a chance to bring out the impurities that we carry in us and wash them away. Our spirits will be refreshed.
Before I head out into the craziness of life today...I'm taking a moment with Him so that He can clean my heart and refresh my spirit. If life is getting you down and making you crazy...let Him clean the house of your heart and refresh you today.
When we spend time with God on a daily basis, focusing on His Word, a cleaning and refreshing is actually taking place. God is not only renewing our mind (making it fresh), He's purifying our hearts and renewing our spirits. Psalm 51:10 - Create in me a clean heart oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. When we don't spend time with God, we will begin to notice our spirits become cluttered. We'll not react to situations in a Godly way, our peace will be robbed, our joy will be robbed, our spiritual vision will become blurry, and our hearts will become hard. When we are in the Word everyday, God has a chance to bring out the impurities that we carry in us and wash them away. Our spirits will be refreshed.
Before I head out into the craziness of life today...I'm taking a moment with Him so that He can clean my heart and refresh my spirit. If life is getting you down and making you crazy...let Him clean the house of your heart and refresh you today.