Gentlemen, start your. . . vacuums?
WARNING!!!: THIS ENTRY IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT BE IN DANGER OF USING YOUR VACUUM, OR IF YOU HAVE A FEAR OF DIRTY CEILINGS, STOP NOW, IF NOT, READ ON.
I learned an important lesson today. I was doing a little cleaning this afternoon and thought, "Maybe I should clean that ceiling fan in the kitchen." So I got out the vacuum cleaner, hooked up the accessory hose and went to work. As I cleaned, I noticed a dust bunny or two hanging from the ceiling, so I just ran the hose over them. No big deal. As I looked on, I saw another, then another, then another. Good, they're all gone. Then my OCD kicked in. I stepped into the garage and grabbed my $10.00, 500 watt halogen work light. Big Mistake! As soon as I turned that sucker on, there they were! Hundreds of little dust bunnies hanging off the texture on the ceiling. I never saw them until I shined that dang light on them. So, I spent the next hour vacuuming the texture on the ceiling. It wasn't really hard, I just held the hose up there and let the vacuum do the work.
As I cleaned, a sudden truth shocked me. Isn't that what the Scriptures do to us? We stop paying attention to our own spiritual life and after a while, we don't see the little dust bunnies that settle on our hearts. Not great big glaring sins, just little things we let pull us away from a closer walk with God. Then all of a sudden, for whatever reason, the Scripture shines a big ole' light in there and we feel disgusting! I suppose that's why God's forgiveness and grace is so unique and wonderful. We don't really do anything to clean ourselves up, we just confess them to Him and let the power of God do all the work. Before we know it, we're clean again thanks to the power of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
So there's just a little spiritual thought from me to you, and by all means, unless you intend on getting that vacuum going, keep the halogen light in the garage.
I learned an important lesson today. I was doing a little cleaning this afternoon and thought, "Maybe I should clean that ceiling fan in the kitchen." So I got out the vacuum cleaner, hooked up the accessory hose and went to work. As I cleaned, I noticed a dust bunny or two hanging from the ceiling, so I just ran the hose over them. No big deal. As I looked on, I saw another, then another, then another. Good, they're all gone. Then my OCD kicked in. I stepped into the garage and grabbed my $10.00, 500 watt halogen work light. Big Mistake! As soon as I turned that sucker on, there they were! Hundreds of little dust bunnies hanging off the texture on the ceiling. I never saw them until I shined that dang light on them. So, I spent the next hour vacuuming the texture on the ceiling. It wasn't really hard, I just held the hose up there and let the vacuum do the work.
As I cleaned, a sudden truth shocked me. Isn't that what the Scriptures do to us? We stop paying attention to our own spiritual life and after a while, we don't see the little dust bunnies that settle on our hearts. Not great big glaring sins, just little things we let pull us away from a closer walk with God. Then all of a sudden, for whatever reason, the Scripture shines a big ole' light in there and we feel disgusting! I suppose that's why God's forgiveness and grace is so unique and wonderful. We don't really do anything to clean ourselves up, we just confess them to Him and let the power of God do all the work. Before we know it, we're clean again thanks to the power of the death and resurrection of Jesus.
So there's just a little spiritual thought from me to you, and by all means, unless you intend on getting that vacuum going, keep the halogen light in the garage.
posted by Kim Reeder | 4:37 PM
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