Don’t be a hoarder!

My dining room looks like a tornado hit it. A while back, I moved one of my students from our youth group into my home. I had to clean out the “back room” for him. You never know how much stuff you have until you go to cleaning out your back room.

What once was a place to sit down and have a meal or a game together had become a mound of stuff that you had to walk around. This “stuff” isn’t bad stuff, it’s just… stuff.

Many times our lives become much like the mountain of things in my diningroom. Our lives are so full these days. They’re not necessarily full of bad things, they’re just full. Sometimes even an overload of good things can cause us to lose attention to the best things.

Unfortunately the most important thing for a Christian, our walk with Jesus, is the thing that suffers the most loss of our time and efforts. These things sometimes are a club that we have joined, an occupation, or sports. Many times it’s been relationships. These things aren’t always bad things. In fact, some of these things are helpful to us and those people we are with. Believe it or not, there have been occurrences when time spent in my ministry has taken away from time with my Savior.

Hebrews 12:1,2 says, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

The things in my dining room have become hindrances to the purpose of the room. Don’t let things in your life interfere with the purpose God has set for your life. If you’re too busy to worship God (whether it’s at school, home or with your church family, or in other instances), you’re too busy. Be Blessed.