Before we pray that God would fill us, we should first pray that he empty us.
~~~~~~ D. L. Moody
Don't deny it---every one of us has a junk drawer. Let's not split hairs here; it might not be an actual drawer, but you have something that qualifies. Pro Tip: If your junk drawer contains a potato masher, it will one day prevent you from opening the drawer, and you will eventually pull the drawer off its tracks. Anyway, one day you have an item that you decide should go into that drawer, but you open the drawer and find that there's simply no more room. You'd come nearer shoving a camel through the eye of a needle.
Now what? Yep, time to clean out the junk drawer. You'll get some pleasant surprises, finding an item you'd forgotten about and wondered where it went, but mostly you'll find stuff you can't use, and maybe even an item or two you should never have held on to in the first place. Get rid of that one before anybody else sees it.
And so it is with our hearts. There's junk in there that has to go. The man or woman in recovery learns that his/her heart was filled with selfishness and stubbornness, a heart that resented advice, and left no room for the goodness of humility and change. Recovery or not, we've all been here. Time to clean out that drawer, fill it with something good, now that we've made room. Keep it that way.
Blessings my friends.
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Psalm 51:10
Dedicated to the memory of Allen Jones, who made room for all of us in his heart.
~~~~~~ D. L. Moody
Don't deny it---every one of us has a junk drawer. Let's not split hairs here; it might not be an actual drawer, but you have something that qualifies. Pro Tip: If your junk drawer contains a potato masher, it will one day prevent you from opening the drawer, and you will eventually pull the drawer off its tracks. Anyway, one day you have an item that you decide should go into that drawer, but you open the drawer and find that there's simply no more room. You'd come nearer shoving a camel through the eye of a needle.
Now what? Yep, time to clean out the junk drawer. You'll get some pleasant surprises, finding an item you'd forgotten about and wondered where it went, but mostly you'll find stuff you can't use, and maybe even an item or two you should never have held on to in the first place. Get rid of that one before anybody else sees it.
And so it is with our hearts. There's junk in there that has to go. The man or woman in recovery learns that his/her heart was filled with selfishness and stubbornness, a heart that resented advice, and left no room for the goodness of humility and change. Recovery or not, we've all been here. Time to clean out that drawer, fill it with something good, now that we've made room. Keep it that way.
Blessings my friends.
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Psalm 51:10
Dedicated to the memory of Allen Jones, who made room for all of us in his heart.
