The Power of Clean

Don't you just love the look and smell of a clean house? Over the last few days, and a few last week, I've been trying really hard to tackle a room each day and do some deep cleaning. Pulling out, throwing away, wiping down, cleaning in corners...places that nobody else could possibly see but me, or at least I hope.

I'm blown away how I manage to spot clean and hit the high spots throughout the school year and things somehow don't look too shabby. If you were to walk in my house, the surface would look o.k. On the flip side of that, if you took a look behind the dryer or underneath the bed or behind the sofa, it would be a different story. During each season I attempt to do a deep cleaning and need to do it more often than that! Why? What I find is that this is not usually enough from one season to the next...the dust collects.

What all this reminded me of today when I was cleaning the top of my very dusty refrigerator, that nobody else could see but me, was my life as a Christian. More times that not, I will try to appear as if I have it together as a Christian, when in reality I'm really dusty, in need of a deep cleansing. Oh, I hit the high spots: go to church, attend small group, and read my bible. On the surface it may look just fine, but God really knows my heart. He knows those places down deep that are in need of a deep cleaning that others may not see. The real me.

I'm finding in this journey, in this walk, a relationship that I never really embraced deeply until just a few years ago, even though I proclaimed Jesus as my Savior, I was a surface Christian. It was all about what looked good. The front of the fridge with all the pictures, not the top!

Each day, not every now and then, I need to renew my life to God, asking Him to guide me, through prayer, praise and reading His word.

Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God;
and renew a right spirit within me.

Embrace a clean heart!
Ginger