“God is NOT the author of confusion”; nor is he the promoter of clutter. He desires simplicity from his servants, and obedience from his sons and daughters. It is not his intention to confuse or complicate; encumber and overbear. It is his desire that you “keep house”. What I been thinking on this week is the danger of the clutter of life and the confusion it can bring; as the lion uses the tall willows to stalk her pray, so the devil uses confusion, complication and clutter to stalk our souls.
Just as it is hard to locate a necessary item in a messy room or storage space; so it is when trying to locate the truth of God in a cluttered mind and soul. If we allow it, the clutter of life can trash “our temple”. When you rise to meet the day no matter who you are or where you are in life, you must face what the day brings. Whether that be work, school, or both; some have jobs and families, others just jobs. Some are married and some are single. Whatever stage you are at, you have a daily routine of demands you must face. These demands weigh on your mind and begin to weigh on your soul if you allow them to. If we are not careful we can become so preoccupied with these demands and responsibilities, we forget to sit down at the feet Jesus and spend some quality time building our relationship with him. When the demands of life lull you into a state of just “existing” and “going through the motions,” furthermore, when the entertainment of the world blurs your mind so that it is no longer focused on Christ. This is when clutter of life beings to plague your soul. The truth which you once experienced (i.e. the witness of the Holy Ghost) is lost in the clutter; if this has happened to you, please find a alter with God and purge your soul, so that you can find his truth (just talk to God, openly and honestly, with words filled with earnest, and he will tell you what to do). Just as you would clean or purge your garage so that you can find the necessary item lost in the clutter; so you must purge your soul. If the truth of God is lost in the clutter, it’s time to have a yard sale and get rid of all that junk.
So how do we keep from this condition? We must go to work? We must go to school? Indeed you must. However, you must go with Jesus and his commandments at the helm of your life. “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate DAY and NIGHT.” The meditation of your heart and mind is consistently and constantly on God. When you work in the work place you do it as if you are working for the Lord. With the hope that you’re consistent, honest and cheerful labor will be seen by others and they will desire the joy of the Lord. When you go to school, find victory in the fact that he has liberated you from the trends, gossip and “pressures to be cool.” These things no longer encumber you because they are the lust of the flesh and will soon pass away. The devil stalks his prey in the confusion of the mind, and finds his cover in the abundance of motion without real action or profit; this corrupts you from the “simplicity which is in Christ.”
God help us to understand that we must read the Word of God, meditate on the scriptures and give yourself wholly to them….every…..single…day. This is how you keep your spiritual house free from clutter and focused on God. Don’t let Satan come in and complicate your life; confusing your mind, thereby confusing your soul and taking your peace; for truly “He will keep in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.”
I ask you; is there a danger of daily life cluttering the soul? Do we really need to be this focused, or simply let God’s grace cover our shortcomings while we walk after things that are pleasing in our sight? Can the true Christian afford a cluttered soul? This is what I have been thinking on week. What have you been thinking on?
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