Good Morning to everyone. Grace and Peace be with you.
It is simply amazing to me, the way the Holy Spirit brings messages to me. If you have been with me for very long, you have seen some very wild comparisons and examples of our walks. This morning, well, it is no different. He showed me this morning as I was making my coffee.
Scented Trash Bags.
Personally, I have the Glad Fabulosa. They are pretty pink and smell wonderful … when I put them in the can. They come in different colors and scents. A pretty nifty design if you think about it. At the end of the week, you have the potential to have the most colorful trash can in the neighborhood.
The idea of creating such a vessel for our garbage was quite ingenious; it will mask all those ugly smells from cleaning out the fridge, uneaten dinner from two nights ago, and any little friends that ate from the snappy hotels you left for them. If you have pets who are struggling to go outside on time, it will help conceal that smell as well when you clean it up. What a wonderful way to keep life’s odors to a minimum in your home.
Something that we need to remember, though, is that no matter how pretty my trash bag is, or how wonderful it smells, the contents of the bag are still garbage. Trash. Rotting food. Decomposing guests from the snap hotels. The container, the vessel, can be as beautiful and magnificent as possible, but the contents are still trash. I can make my trash can smell like a rainbow candy, but the contents are still stinky garbage.
This is probably one of the best analogies He has given me. In my opinion. It does not matter how fancy our clothes are, how well-kept our hair is, how much perfume or cologne we use, or even how eloquent our vocabulary is … if our heart is not in alignment with God the Father, then we are no better than a scented trash bag.
In Matthew, chapter 23, starting with verse 25 through 28, Jesus speaks of this very problem. Where the religious leaders worried about what they looked like in appearance to the people, instead of what their hearts were full of. They were in essence, the epitome of a scented trash bag.
Today, my prayer is that we all examine our hearts and our appearance. If they are not in alignment with God’s Word, that is something we can correct. We all have the choice to put on a shroud for show or a sackcloth for humility. John the Baptist was not a well-dressed preacher with fancy words, he was a bare bones tell it like it is man of God. Today, I pray my sackcloth shows and my words are full of Love. How about you?
**The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! – Matthew 5:22-23
It is simply amazing to me, the way the Holy Spirit brings messages to me. If you have been with me for very long, you have seen some very wild comparisons and examples of our walks. This morning, well, it is no different. He showed me this morning as I was making my coffee.
Scented Trash Bags.
Personally, I have the Glad Fabulosa. They are pretty pink and smell wonderful … when I put them in the can. They come in different colors and scents. A pretty nifty design if you think about it. At the end of the week, you have the potential to have the most colorful trash can in the neighborhood.
The idea of creating such a vessel for our garbage was quite ingenious; it will mask all those ugly smells from cleaning out the fridge, uneaten dinner from two nights ago, and any little friends that ate from the snappy hotels you left for them. If you have pets who are struggling to go outside on time, it will help conceal that smell as well when you clean it up. What a wonderful way to keep life’s odors to a minimum in your home.
Something that we need to remember, though, is that no matter how pretty my trash bag is, or how wonderful it smells, the contents of the bag are still garbage. Trash. Rotting food. Decomposing guests from the snap hotels. The container, the vessel, can be as beautiful and magnificent as possible, but the contents are still trash. I can make my trash can smell like a rainbow candy, but the contents are still stinky garbage.
This is probably one of the best analogies He has given me. In my opinion. It does not matter how fancy our clothes are, how well-kept our hair is, how much perfume or cologne we use, or even how eloquent our vocabulary is … if our heart is not in alignment with God the Father, then we are no better than a scented trash bag.
In Matthew, chapter 23, starting with verse 25 through 28, Jesus speaks of this very problem. Where the religious leaders worried about what they looked like in appearance to the people, instead of what their hearts were full of. They were in essence, the epitome of a scented trash bag.
Today, my prayer is that we all examine our hearts and our appearance. If they are not in alignment with God’s Word, that is something we can correct. We all have the choice to put on a shroud for show or a sackcloth for humility. John the Baptist was not a well-dressed preacher with fancy words, he was a bare bones tell it like it is man of God. Today, I pray my sackcloth shows and my words are full of Love. How about you?
**The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! – Matthew 5:22-23
Good Morning to everyone. Grace and Peace be with you.
It is simply amazing to me, the way the Holy Spirit brings messages to me. If you have been with me for very long, you have seen some very wild comparisons and examples of our walks. This morning, well, it is no different. He showed me this morning as I was making my coffee.
Scented Trash Bags.
Personally, I have the Glad Fabulosa. They are pretty pink and smell wonderful … when I put them in the can. They come in different colors and scents. A pretty nifty design if you think about it. At the end of the week, you have the potential to have the most colorful trash can in the neighborhood.
The idea of creating such a vessel for our garbage was quite ingenious; it will mask all those ugly smells from cleaning out the fridge, uneaten dinner from two nights ago, and any little friends that ate from the snappy hotels you left for them. If you have pets who are struggling to go outside on time, it will help conceal that smell as well when you clean it up. What a wonderful way to keep life’s odors to a minimum in your home.
Something that we need to remember, though, is that no matter how pretty my trash bag is, or how wonderful it smells, the contents of the bag are still garbage. Trash. Rotting food. Decomposing guests from the snap hotels. The container, the vessel, can be as beautiful and magnificent as possible, but the contents are still trash. I can make my trash can smell like a rainbow candy, but the contents are still stinky garbage.
This is probably one of the best analogies He has given me. In my opinion. It does not matter how fancy our clothes are, how well-kept our hair is, how much perfume or cologne we use, or even how eloquent our vocabulary is … if our heart is not in alignment with God the Father, then we are no better than a scented trash bag.
In Matthew, chapter 23, starting with verse 25 through 28, Jesus speaks of this very problem. Where the religious leaders worried about what they looked like in appearance to the people, instead of what their hearts were full of. They were in essence, the epitome of a scented trash bag.
Today, my prayer is that we all examine our hearts and our appearance. If they are not in alignment with God’s Word, that is something we can correct. We all have the choice to put on a shroud for show or a sackcloth for humility. John the Baptist was not a well-dressed preacher with fancy words, he was a bare bones tell it like it is man of God. Today, I pray my sackcloth shows and my words are full of Love. How about you?
**The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! – Matthew 5:22-23
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