Nobody likes it! It Stinks! I’m sitting by a trash can right now, in it are leftovers from three weeks ago that I threw away, some empty bags that food once held, an egg carton, some papers, junk mail, etc. The mere fact that there is a place to put trash means that we do not just want it lying around that house. You do not put trash in the microwave, or in the bath tub, our on top of the dvd player in the living room. Trash is put into the trash can. Once the trash can in full, or starts to smell; you take it out to the big trash can outside, and typically once a week the trash truck comes and empties you big trash can and takes it to the dump.
I remember as a kid I never liked taking out the trash. Every thursday night after dinner I would take all the trash from the house and put them in the big trash bins and move them to the street. It was not hard I just did not like doing it.
We have a set system to handle the trash in our house. But we choose to fill our lives with trash! So what do I mean filling our lives with trash. Well we fill our lives with things that do not matter, with things that are useless. The have no spiritual value, monetary value sure, well maybe. We captivate ourselves in sin- jealousy, hatred, lust, profanity, addictions, anything, you name it. IT IS TRASH! but we live in it, and get this we like it. We like living in figurative mounds of leftover dinner. It stinks, its rotten, and we don’t care.
My advice is get it out. I am sure you are asking how do we do that? We its not like we have a system of putting our trash into a bin and take it to the street and there is goes. But is it that easy? I John says “If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Confession is kind of like taking out the trash. It is asking God to forgive us of our sins. Once we begin to realize what that trash in doing in our lives and how it is affecting others we have to make a decision to either take out the trash or live in it.
When we confess our sins God does forgive us. But sin does not magically go away. We will have time when sin enters our life, when we commit sin willingly. This puts the trash back into our lives. We have to remember to take the time in our days to confess our sins to take out the trash, to lay aside the weights that hold us back.
My prayer is that every Christian does not live in their trash. That we all can conquer the sin that is keeping us from having a relationship with God that is vibrant and growing.
every wednesday night right after i come home from church i take out the trash bins………..
but isnt it so stupid at how we knowingly put trash in our lives and we would all agree that we dont want trash in our lives and that trash is a bad thing yet we do it anyway.
good thoughts