Is there any correlation between a clean house and a clean spiritual life? Is someone who is too busy, too lazy, or too distracted by life to pick up the place where they live also due to that stuff challenged to pick up the mess in their life with God? I would dare say, “yes.”
I’ll share a truth with ya; if people enter your home and don’t see clutter, they tend to think your house is clean, even if it isn’t, but if they see a mess everywhere, they will sense your home is dirty.
Keeping a house clean is a constant job. There are no days off, vacations, or holidays. The same goes for maintaining your spiritual life with God. I learned from my parents to look around whenever moving about the house and to pick up something out of place and return it. I also learned to put things up as soon as you finish with them. I understand that living with others who do not share your desire to keep items picked up can make your job more difficult.
So how does all of this relate to your spiritual life? Keeping on top of your relationship with God takes desire, time, and effort. You have to make a mental decision to make it a priority. Even when there are things in life that are begging for your attention. Yes, you may be tired, have distractions, hardships, financial pressure, or have relationship struggles, but you still need to make time to spend with God. In fact, if you have anything from that list going on, you would be crazy not to go to God and take it with you to turn all of it to him.
15 But the news about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering together to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses. 16 Yet Jesus himself frequently withdrew to the wilderness and prayed.
Luke 5:15-16 (NET)
Sometimes you can’t get to the house, but don’t let anything keep you from your time with your heavenly Father. Take the example of Jesus himself. He knew how important it was to spend time with his heavenly Father. Doing so keeps your mind and heart clear, clean, and uncluttered.
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I need my morning prayer walk to get away from the physical clutter and work on the mental clutter. If I don’t do that, it’s hard to deal with anything else that comes along.
A good plan of action, Ann. You look spiritually clean from here to me.
Lol, my kitchen may be another story… 😏🙄
Ha! Honesty! Be like Mary, Ann. It is better to sit at the feet of Jesus than to clean your kitchen! Do you think your husband will buy that?
Haha. He does better than that, Mark. Since he’s been retired, he helps me clean up after dinner almost every night. What used to take me 20 minutes by myself, the two of us can do in five. 🙂 ❤
Glad to hear. I help April too. I guess he and I are real Proverbs 31 Men!
lol. The Proverbs 31 man just praises his wife. So you guys are more! 🙂