TIME FOR A DECLUTTER

Romans 12:2 NIV Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Now I don’t know whether you are a tidy or an untidy person but I’m a bit of both! My craft room often looks cluttered, but I do try to keep the rest of my house tidy most of the time.😊

As I was thinking about that I realised that a lot of us also have cluttered minds. We have clutter in our thinking from bad memories we should have let go of years ago, clutter from the upset maybe only yesterday or ten years ago, clutter from the anxieties about the future which have filled our minds with all the unhelpful things we really don’t want, because they steal our peace.

The trouble with clutter in our minds is, it doesn’t leave any room for new ideas or thoughts! Those times when God wants to give us a new uplifting thought but it gets buried under all the other rubbish we’re hanging on to, or we just haven’t any room left for His thoughts to come in and find a home.

There’s a TV programme which shows people with homes so badly cluttered they have to get people in to clear it all out and a lot of it goes to the tip. They’ve forgotten why they even keep things! Are we a bit like that? Have we hung on to wrong thoughts, wrong attitudes or memories and we can’t even remember why?

God wants to transform each and every one of us and He says He does it by transforming our minds, but we have to cooperate with Him in order for Him to do that. Maybe it’s time to stand back and ask the Holy Spirit to help us see what needs sorting out, to have a grand clear out and allow Him to show us what is clogging up our thinking, what needs throwing out and what’s worth keeping.

Like me, you’re probably getting the feeling it’s time to declutter our minds to make room for the new thing God is wanting to do, so we know what His good, pleasing and perfect will is for our future.😊 Amen.

GOD MEANS WHAT HE SAYS

Isaiah 43:19 ESV Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

God still has new things for us all, and they may make our heads tilt a bit, whether it’s in our own lives personally or by the mighty move of God that is coming on the earth in these end times where the Holy Spirit will bring many people into God’s kingdom before it’s too late.

When we read this verse though, we may think it’s only referring to some big new thing that’s going to happen, but perhaps we forget that each new day is a new beginning.😊 

Yesterday has gone and we can leave it in God’s hands. God reminds us He has poured out His new mercies on us as the new day dawned for when we get it wrong, and He has showered us with the new blessings of His grace that will meet every need we will have in the next 24 hours.

There may be things looming in your life and you just can’t see how they can be resolved, or how things are going to work out, but we’ve not been called to ‘work things out’. We’ve been called to trust in the God who holds the solar systems in place, who calls out the stars by name, who knows how many hairs are on your head, who knows when you sit down and rise up again.😊

We’re called to tell others about the goodness and love of our God and leave the details to Him, one day at a time. We’re called to follow His lead, not to go down the cul de sacs of ‘good ideas’ or lean on our own very limited understanding. When God says He will make a way in the wilderness, He means it! It’s not an airy fairy, vague nice thing to say! God always means what He says. He will make a way!

So be encouraged to grab a hold of this verse, whether it’s for the next 24 hours or for the big picture of the future, because either way it’s God Himself who is promising it and He will do what He says He will do! My part is to stir up our faith and your part is to believe Him.😊 Amen.

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