Dirty Dishes

Shame

I must admit that often times I find myself embarrassed.  You see at times I would like to invite friends over, but then think about my house.  Perhaps the dishes were not done. Or maybe the floors are somewhat dirty.  So I pass on the opportunity to have people over.  Today I was reading in I John and read this,

“If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.”

1 John 4:15 NIV

If this body is but a tent (house) in which I dwell and God has been invited (asked into my life) to come to my home.  Why am I not more embarrassed by the dirt that is to be found in my home?  Why don’t I break down and fall on my knees and beg for forgiveness? Yet I am a new man living in the old mans tent.  I do things I don’t want and its at times as if I am powerless.  Yet it is not I that live but Christ that lives in me. The truth is that I cant clean out my house.  I can never make it a fit place for the King.  Yet He is willing to clean it for me.  How’s that for a house guest, one that not only comes over to live with you but will at the same time clean you whole house from top to bottom.  Mind you the Lord is a polite resident of the home and would never clean up with out our consent.  You see if He is our Lord then we must give up everything to Him.  We claim Him as Lord and Savior and at the same time try to hold on to just a little bit.  Let it all go, let Him sit on the throne of your life, let Him truly be Lord.  Give up the pride and fear that holds us back. Leap into His loving arms and let Him change your house into one truly fitting a King.  Until that blessed day when we have our new bodies let Him transform you more and more each day.