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| IT ONLY COMES WHEN YOU CLEAN YOUR ROOM....PART 2 |
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If I have learned anything about having a dirty room I learned that once it begins to get cleaned, it reveals the truth about it... you not only see the nice floors and the beautiful furniture, but you see the tarnish on them. God let me know that I was guilty of cleaning my room half way...
I remember when I was young. Every other Saturday, my mom used to tell us to clean our rooms really good before we can do anything else. We couldn't go outside neither play with our toys unless we cleaned our rooms. Because we were excited about going outside to play we would cut-corners. We would pile all of the clothes into the closet, push all of the trash and such under the bed, then we used to use straigthen the bed so the sheet can hang down to the floor so you couldn't see what was under the bed. We did this for a long time until one day, my mom wondered how we got the room so clean after it was a total wreck. I remember seeing her moving the bed; revealing all of the trash, the shoes, the dirty clothes that was hidden. Then she took a broom and sweep everything to the center of the floor. We stood there (4 of us) so disappointed because she found us out. Then she ended up opening the closet only to get attacked by falling stinky, dirty clothes, toys and whatever else we could fit into the closet...lol.
God let me know that this is exactly how I treated Him. I would constantly ask for promotions and rewards and even more of Him, when my room or my temple was "hiding" the dirt. It doesn't matter if no one outside the walls of my house knew what dirt I was trying to hide, but I couldn't keep it from God. So God began to take my peace (which signifies the moving of the bed). I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, my mind was everywhere. I couldn't get committed to one task, but I would run around everywhere and to everyone trying to find peace in even doing good deeds and through good intentions without having any regard for "God's instructions..."
6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Isaiah 64:6
Because of my disobedience and not completely yielding to His will, my good that I have done didn't account for anything. The closet (our prayer closet) gets filled with old and new things. The old things are those old sins; those things that we hold onto that God instructed us to let go. The unfrogiveness of people and self, the bitterness, the hatred and the anger that we hold in our hearts. Filthy... clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.... and just like mixing dirty clothes with clean clothes makes the clean clothes dirty, so have we in regard to others. We have allowed those things that we hold to contaminate our new friendships and new relationships with people who don't have anything to do with the past. I really wish that I could back to those ones that I really loved. One person in particular who lived far, but felt so near everytime we spoke. I shared "some" hurts and shared "some pains and revealed all of my imperfections to them. I took away the innocense when I wasn't true.... and took away the pureness because of my own insecurities.... How many of us feel this way? I had to be honest with myself and reveal 'everything" that was in my room....my temple...in my house, to a God that already knew but wanted me to freely share it with Him. Through all of the baggage, bondage, weights, sin, etc... it posed one question and I say to you.... Have you really told Him everything? Have you really emptied yourself of everything to Him? Have you really given it all to Him? In my consecration unto Him, and the time He has me set apart, even from myself... I ask myself these questions, and then I tell Him...
I started off saying." Lord, there is too much inside of me to tell it all..." but He tells me to start from the beginning...
There has to be another part to this.... cause I don't feel that this is it.....
7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. 8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. 9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people...Isaiah 64:7-8
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8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
We are all the work of thou hand (Praise Him)..... and if we would just truly, truly let go, Oh the joy and peace would be abundant. Our society has molded us in such a way that it is hard to let go... We hear his word, know in our hearts it is true an still fight it... God bless you Tony on this journey. I can relate and to be totally honest I have not reached that higher ground yet, but I am still fighting and standing knowing that my Father is right along side of me. To GOD be the Glory....
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| Testimonies are oftentimes food for someone else's soul........ |
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I begin to read and I remember also when a a child I use to clean my room I would throw stuff and hide stuff. Out of site out of mind. Looked good on the outside but underneath it was a mess, in the closet and under the bed. I would often get a reward for the good job. In the spiritual sometimes we hide things but it was still in the room. The thing about God is he sees and knows all. This really makes you take an inventory of what is in the room and is it clean. I can say my room needs to be swept up a little bit. I thank God that he is a forgiving God and he does not hold anything against us. I can relate to what you are saying and I am cleaning my room and I know that it will come.
Be blessed and encouraged |
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