The term “spring cleaning” is a household word. But how about some fall cleaning? Our lives seemed to be filled with clutter. I received a Christmas gift last year and this week realized it is still on my dresser where I placed it last December – unopened, unused, essentially forgotten about… clutter.
At this busy season of the year, many things can distract us, cause confusion, and end up leaving us in a pile of holiday debris. As you prepare for the thanksgiving and Christmas activities, perhaps it’s a good time to take out some trash.
For me that means cleaning off my dresser and doing something with the gift that has been sitting there eleven months. It should also include an inventory of my spiritual gifts and abilities to ensure I am not letting them sit on the shelf. I want to reevaluate where I am and work toward what God has for me. That process will entail putting to use some things I’ve let slide to the back burner, but it will also include discarding some stuff… clutter.
The holidays start in just a couple weeks. Cleaning time can start now.
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:12-14
