Clean Up

Today was the last day of school! Yes! We made it all the way! It is also housekeeping time. The halls are full of trash and trash bags, people are working to clean up the mess and clean out the lockers. It is amazing the things left behind, that go unwanted or considered trash. Clean up and clean out is good thing and something we all probably need to do more often.
I am reading a very good book and the chapter I finished dealt with the value we put on stuff, and how that value system is misguided. Stuff is not as important as we making out to be, we use phrases like “we need this” or “we have to have that.” I was reminded of this as I watched the kids throw things away that at one point they really felt like they needed. It was important at one time, but obviously not important at this time. It was stuff and it needed to be cleaned out.
I think cleaning out stuff is very important. The things we accumulate is amazing and yes at some point very important, but when the usefulness is gone, why not throw it away? Better yet, why not think ahead and realize we really don’t need the stuff anyways. I am talking about physical items, but can’t we do the same in our souls. Sometimes we need to clean out our mind and bodies. We even need to realize that something’s are unimportant and will only take up space.
I learned a valuable math lesson one time. Full can be represented as 100%. Full means that no more can go in the tank, and if when continue to fill it up something has to be pushed out. If God wants our whole-self then He requires 100% of the space. When we put stuff in the tank there is less room for God; He knows has only 80% of the space. That is what stuff does it takes up space; the worldly stuff occupies the space we have reserved for God. We need to evaluate how much space we have for Him. Then we need to do a little housekeeping and get rid of all the things occupying His space in our lives. We need to self evaluate our stuff because we only have so much room (100%). It is never a bad time to do a little house cleaning.