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.