Climb high, Sleep low

It is amazing what one collects in a paltry six months.  I feel it is healthy to move at least every other year, just to get rid of the things you don’t use anymore.  Ok, maybe that is a little extreme, but only just a little.  Now I have done my fair share of moving over the last ten years, and as I mentioned before, I still find it hard to believe how much stuff accumulates between each move.  I can’t imagine how much stuff I would have to go through if I lived somewhere for twenty years.  And that got me thinking about how this truth might cross over into other areas of life.  My experience has taught me that what holds true for one thing usually holds true for others.  So here you go a glimpse into my thoughts.
“Cleaning is mandatory for healthy living.  Now spot cleaning works good for most things, but it is inevitable that at certain points you will have to have a major cleaning session, this is what most of us call “Spring Cleaning”.  The necessity of cleaning comes from the fact that we are dust machines, as we shed countless skin cells every day.  Not to mention that we coop ourselves up inside buildings and let fans continuously circulate contaminated air, which in turn helps propagate the numerous microbes and fungi that love to feast on our filth.  If we are not diligent in our cleaning, we can quickly be overrun by these little nasties, and be overcome by the scent, the sight or even the illnesses they spread.  It is a lovely picture I know.  This happens every day, however, the physical house is not what I am concerned with.  I am worried about the spiritual one.  I think that if something can happen to you physically then it is possible for it to happen to you spiritually.  I think that you need to clean house spiritually every once in a while.  Now I don’t mean that you get rid of everything you know and start from scratch; that is not what you do with your physical house, so I would not suggest it with your spiritual house either.  But it must be cleaned and straightened up just the same.  We keep so many useless and out dated ministry techniques in our spiritual houses.  We must have a time when we can evaluate them and if they no longer connect to the culture we should just get rid of them.  If we don’t, if we hold on to the way we have always done it, if we never let go of the idea it “worked for me, so it should work for them” and the mentality that goes with it, then we are doomed to clutter and filth and illness in our spiritual lives.”
So there is your glimpse.  I could probably show you some more, but if you see too much then I might lose my intrigue and mystique.  And really, what is a man without those things???