Dust Bunnies and Stinky Socks in the Heart
Today we stayed home from work because we were notified that they were shutting off the water and electricity in the area where our office is at. So, no electricity means: no internet. No internet means: no work. So we wanted to be productive and stayed home where there was internet… or so we thought! 
I got up this morning and made coffee, put out the trash, settled in to check my emails (working in your p.j.’s can be quite fun) and then my roommate informs me that there is no internet. Ughhh. Well, life is never dull or predictable in Costa Rica. One morning you may wake up and it is sunny, the birds are singing, the traffic is loud, people are out mowing their yards and then all of a sudden the street in front of your house becomes a raging river! Thus the phrase: Pura Vida. It’s direct translation means Pure Life, but it is used as an “Oh well”, or “Goodbye”, and even as an “I don’t understand a word you are saying!”.
Back to the point of why I starting blogging today: I was cleaning the kitchen (my old roommate and best friend just had a heart attack!), I was cleaning the kitchen and thinking to myself, “I just cleaned this stovetop last week and now it is a mess! If I would just clean off the sauce at the time of the spill, then I wouldn’t have to scrub burnt grease off!” At that very moment, God spoke to my heart. “Uhhh uhhh huhh ummm, (that is God’s throat clearing), “Melissa, you do the same thing with your life, all the time!” And He is right! Of course He is, He’s God!
I know I should be cleaning my “spiritual” house as it gets dirty, bit by bit. When lies present themselves, I should swipe them clean. And yet I do what I sometimes do with my house… I ignore the dust bunnies and hope they go away!
They never do.
We find it’s more work to get the sin out of our lives, than if we had just taken care of it right away. There would be less heartache and a closer walk with God if we would just take a moment to look around us, inspect our motives, dust off our attitudes, sweep out our dirty minds and do some really good scrubbing on the heart. Then make time in our “spiritual lives” for cleaning. So that sin doesn’t get the opportunity to build a monstrous pile of stinky socks in our hearts!
And although I was extremely irritated that I had no internet all day, I was profoundly moved by the time I was able to share with God. Getting a chance to ask Him about areas in my life that I have allowed sin to slink into, as well as praying- for wisdom to see the lies of the enemy for what they are.
1Peter 5:8-9
8 “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.”
