Take Out the Trash

Today when I was walking to campus from the mall, I saw a lot of trash on the ground. It was gross. Then I started thinking about how this relates to my faith. How often do we carry our trash around instead of taking it out and choosing to live as the new creation that Christ died for us to be? We are sons and daughters of the King, and we need to take off our prison clothes and put on our royal clothes. We need to be clothed in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Trash smells bad, especially when it has been piled up and there is a lot of it. Are we going to be clothed in our sin and give others a bad smell of what Christ is like? Or are we going to put on the sweet aroma of Jesus and let others taste and see that the Lord is GOOD??

I want to encourage you to ask God to search your heart and take out the trash. He has been searching my heart a lot lately and is finally lifting the burden of a sin that I've been struggling with for a long time.

Love,

Amanda