Spring Cleaning
Today I am trying to clean my house. I feel the need, now that spring is here/around the corner, to wipe down every surface. I actually dislike this job. Sometimes, and some tasks are better than others, but overall, I'd rather not. So today is the day. Why put off til tomorrow what can be done today, right? Eh . . .
It seems, though, that every time I try and get my house clean, it gets worse! As I look at the progress that I have made so far I want to give up! Yes, I can see out of my windows very well, but can I see my carpet under the toys that are piled on top? Not really. I cleaned my kitchen, then made lunch . . . I think I got that backwards. Now I get to do it again!
Last night my women's Bible study started our book on "Worldliness." I'm gonna hate this book. I know exactly what the word means and exactly where my life stands in relation to it. There is a quote from Charles Spurgeon in this book. I think it illustrates worldliness in such a visual way. He says, "Worldliness is growing over the church; she is mossed with it." Keith and I once discussed, while house shopping, the ivy and moss that grows on houses and how beautiful it made things. But he said that all those things did was deteriorate what was underneath faster. Spurgeon is talking about how as a church we need to separate ourselves from the world, other wise our witness is undermined and loses all impact. I shutter at the fact that my testimony could, and just might be, less influential for Christ.
So I guess my house isn't the only thing that needs a little scrub down is it?
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