Oh my goodness! I have over 999+ emails to delete! Truth be told, it's about 1500+. I know most of them are sales ads, coupons I won't use, and pleas from companies to visit their websites again....so I let them pile up. When I worked as a secretary, I was emailing all day long. Receiving and sending. Replying, forwarding, and deleting. Email consumed my day. Perhaps that is why I tend to avoid it now.
I logged into my email the other day for the sole purpose of deleting unwanted garbage. I checked the boxes in bulk and hit the delete button. Over and over I repeated the process. Ten to twenty at a time. It seemed the more I deleted the more there was to delete. Junk was clogging up my inbox. It took a couple of hours...and I didn't finish.
As I sat doing this monotonous task, I began to think about how life can become like my email. Cobwebs building from inattention. Junk piling up and clogging the path, blocking the view. Friends, we must be so careful not to allow junk to pile up in our lives. Sin creeps in like that. We might ignore it. It's so easy to do. Like I ignore my inbox.
At home, I have to walk through each room with a long-handled brush to knock down the cobwebs that form in the corners. But I also have to pay attention to the blinds. Those crazy spiders like to hide behind them and build fortresses! (I saw one this morning!) Why do I do it? Well, I am not a huge fan of spiders, but mostly I don't want my guests to think I am a poor housekeeper. You see, people can see those cobwebs and the lack of attention I give to the corners of my home if I don't clean them up.
So, let me challenge you today. As I continue to build on the word I used last year to live my life - deliberate - and add more to it by being consistent this year, I am convicted of the daily need to knock down the cobwebs. If I don't log into my email daily, by the end of the week there are once again hundreds of emails I don't even care about. I must always be deliberate and consistent.
What do you care about? Are you missing treasures because of the junk piling up and blocking the view? God has so much for us! I don't know about you, but I miss a lot of it for the cobwebs.
If I am going to live deliberately consistent, I am going to have to be active daily making sure I am keeping the corners of my heart clean. I can't let any little sin hide out there. I must let God shine his light into the recesses I ignore and help me clean up. Because the real truth is, people can see when we let the cobwebs pile up in the corners of our hearts too.
It's easy to let the cobwebs pile up. I'm going to spend some time tonight cleaning up my email. More importantly, I am going to sit with the Lord and let him delete some junk I've allowed to pile up in my heart and mind. How about you?
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