Junk

A few weeks ago my friends came over to my house for a sleep over.  When one of them walked in to my room, she made the comment, "It's so small."  I knew that her comment had not been made to offend, and quite honestly it didn't offend me.  However I looked around my room with a different perspective than normal.  Is it really that small, or Is it just too full of stuff? 

How much stuff do I have in my room that I don't use?  My family has a storage compartment full of things that we don't use (afterall, it's in storage for a reason).  Why are messy rooms such a problem?  We can't park our cars in our garage because it's full of equipment.

I was amazed at the multitude of results when I searched for messy rooms on Google.

 

It's almost as if we think that by filling our houses and our cars and our lives up with stuff, we'll be happy.  We'll be full.  Honestly, this can go beyond the material things.  It can be activities.  How often are we busy?  How frequently are we on the go?  It can also be through relationships.  Family is important, but it will never fulfill you completely. Boyfriends and girlfriends are in the same category.   What about your job, your eating habits, or even your church?  

 

There are certain things that you do need to live. You have to work to make a living.  You have to eat to live.  Going to church is important, and is a great source of spiritual nourishment, christian fellowship, and worship time.  However, when we aren't making time for God because of work, when we eat because we're depressed, and when we are just going  to church to say that we went, then we're still trying to fill ourselves up with the wrong thing.

How do you fill yourself up?  What is the right thing?  Or rather, is there a right thing?  I believe that there is.  I believe that when you depend on Christ, He will fill you up.  I'm not saying that it is wrong to be busy, work, go to church, or have a house full of stuff, but I do think that it is wrong to try fill yourself up on the world.  God eagerly pursues you, and wants to fulfill you.  All you have to do is let Him do so.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13 (NIV)

 

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