We all have been there--cleaning out closets, digging through drawers, and sorting through cabinets. By removing the excess we have accumulated over the past year, we lighten our load, ease our stress of a messy home, and most importantly---getting rid of the mess in our lives. Who knew spring cleaning could be spiritual? The Lord is completely rearranging my priorities, my thinking, and my dating habits. He is removing the filth and filling me with Him, and I have been awakened, and renewed(Romans 12:2).
I used to think that I had complete control over my life. I don't think I've ever been so wrong. I thought I could control my actions, decisions, and even what relationships I wanted to be in, romantic and platonic. After completely submitting to the Lord, my personal life has completely been shaken. I find myself re-evaluating my spending habits, study habits, and have made Christ numbero uno. But this task isn't easy. Yes, I just used the present tense. This submitting myself to the Lord is a constant, daily struggle.
Beginning with my dating life after my most recent heartbreak(still hurts), I painfully have given full control to Him. I'm having to learn to be single, which is something new for me. It is definitely is a working process. I've never not tried to focus on dating and being where I am(last year of college, sorority life, work..) it isn't easy not to. Sometimes I have to sit and tell myself that whoever the Lord has in mind for me will be put into my life when I am ready because if anything, I have the best matchmaker around!(Forget what you have heard on TV *cough *cough e Harmony).
Speaking of television...the Lord has also been changing my desires. The things that I used to fill my time, and more importantly mind with, are no longer giving me the same fulfillment--that's how I know I'm spring cleaning my life. As a result, my family is becoming even more important to me, as well as, the music I listen to, and the people I surround myself with.(Work isn't even that unbearable!)
So I guess you can say 'spring has sprung'! I encourage you to self-reflect upon your life spiritually, and if need get rid of that junk, and organize and re-evaluate what is important in life.
(This blog is a journey of my spiritual "Spring Cleaning")
Spring I love it! Sweet Jesus! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm reminded of my similar moment when I thought of the verse about the lily..."See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these."
ReplyDeleteAll a lily can do to be its best is just be fertilized, fed and watered to become the beautiful work of God's hand. It doesn't need to strive or worry--just be who it was meant to be. When I realized that I just need to focus on being fed and grow naturally, it took a lot of pressure off. I didn't have to figure out what to "do" -- just "be". God just wants a relationship with us (who He designed us to be as we grow in Him) --that's all. Then, I was free to really be myself and risk all to do so because I was free from worry about the outcome. That's when your real beauty is revealed.