This week my teammate and I have been cleaning out the kids closets at the orphanage and really teaching them about priorities. On how to take care of yourself and your things. We spoke to the girls about how they were princesses because their Father…Jesus Christ…was the King.
Little did I know, that in the process of physically cleaning out their things and tidying up their rooms, God would use it to start cleaning me out.
Two years ago God laid on my heart to clean out all of my music and movies. At the time I did it out of obligation not because I desired to be closer to the Father.
As time went on I began to add some of that music back in. By not being obidient, and laying it down when Jesus told me too, I didn’t gain freedom from it. The Holy Spirit began to show me that the music I was listening to was filling me with nothing but junk. If it doesn’t add to your relationship with God then it is taking away from it. There is no middle ground.
As many of you know I love music….it is one of my biggest passions in life. But over the course of the last two years God has touched and spoken to my heart in many ways about the kinds of things I let into my ears. Our ears and our eyes are filters to our hearts. So when we listen to music or anything else that tell us lies about who we are, or what kind of life we should live, we start to believe them. We let the enemy get a foothold in our minds, and we let the lies he speaks through music and through movies define who we are.
I no longer want my disobidience standing in the way of me growing a more intimate relationship with God. I want to be more bold in worship, how can I do that if I allow lies to fill me and don’t stand firm in the truth of who I am in Christ? I wanna be able to pour into the lives of those around me, how can I do that when I have junk that I haven’t gotten rid of?
“Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.” Proverbs 4:23 NKJV
Lets get real, lets lay it all out there, and lets come to the table of intimacy with the Father. You want change but you don’t want to sacrifice. You want to grow closer but you don’t want to let go of the things that Jesus told you to let go of. I’m speaking to myself here as well.
Lets clean out all the junk so that He can fill us up and we can come closer to the Father, to our Daddy, and really experience who He is!
