Throw it away!

I have a confession to make- I used to be messy. My mom has told me that instead of cleaning my room, I would shove stuff under my bed or jam-pack my dresser. Yikes. When I was in middle school I found a roach in my room. It was alive. It changed my life. From that point forward I became extremely organized. One of my college roommates used to say that I could organize anything. I even had a very specific system for organizing my class notes- complete with color-coding. There is not a single closet in my house that I wouldn't mind showing to you. I love organizing things!

When my dear friend, Jen, came to me with a book about the closets of our mind I had mixed feelings. What would I discover about myself? How organized and tidy were those closets? To be clear, this book isn't some sort of touchy-feely new-agey text, it is very much centered on the Biblical idea of filling our minds with the truth. Within the first couple of weeks with this book, I've realized that I have a lot of junk in my mind. My physical closets are relatively junk free. I have a strict policy-- if something new comes in, something old goes out. Unfortunately, I cannot say that for my mind. There is a lot of junk up in there. Anxiety, guilt, frustration, irritations, etc sometimes fill my mind. I've organized these thoughts and put them neatly on the shelves of my mind and pull them out at the strangest times. Unfortunately, organizing these thoughts is an absolute waste of time. So in light of that fact, I have issued a challenge to myself- put new thoughts in and throw out the old.

What are the new thoughts? The new thoughts are centered around who God is and what He requires- last week was Phil 2:4-5 and this week is Psalm 119:14-16. I'm realizing that when I fill my mind with God's truths, I do not have time to pull out the junk. So now I issue the same challenge to you, quit organizing the junk and just throw it away! Fill your mind with the truths of God and see what happens.