The other night I was tucking in Jack. As he was climbing in to bed he said that there were two cracks in his ceiling. I looked up and noticed what he was talking about.
I asked him how long they had been there. He told me they had been there for a few weeks. What I saw were two thick black lines approximately 18 inches long.
I said that I should probably have someone look at those right away. I couldn't believe there were two cracks in the ceiling. I told Jack that maybe it was just the way the house was settling....I don't even know what that means...but I have heard someone else say that...it sounded good.
I was definitely concerned about these cracks...and wondered what I was going to do. So I reached up to touch them.
And they weren't cracks at all.
They were....
big, thick cobwebs.
I had to laugh but I was a little embarrassed at the same time.
But as soon as I figured out what they were I was able to wipe them down and they were finally gone.
What kind of cobwebs do we have in our lives? Do we have cobwebs in our spiritual and emotional life?
Cobwebs are basically just dust collecting upon dust upon dust.
How can we clear out the dust?
I know that these past two weeks I have found myself using the worst self talk. I haven't talked this way about myself, to myself in a long time. I find myself saying that I am a bad mom, that I make stupid choices, that I am fat, that I can't control myself and that I will never do anything right.
Dust layer after dust layer....adding upon one another until it is a thick black line of a cobweb.
In my thought life I am not taking care of myself as God has told me to in the bible. I am fighting the cobwebs in my thoughts. "Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think abut things that are excellent and worthy of praise.: Philippians 4:8 Are the cobwebs so thick from not trusting in the Word of God that they look like cracks in our spiritual life?
Reach up your weapons...the Sword of the Spirit and whack those cobwebs down! Do some spring cleaning and wipe out the things that don't need to be in our thought life. We can be so good at ignoring those things and letting them get so big. But it just takes one swipe of that sword to knock them out. The enemy of our mind seems too tough...like a crack that we have no idea how to fix, but I know that with God it only takes one sweep of his love to take those things out!
Blessings....be cobweb free!
In love, Teresa
Love your analogy!
ReplyDeleteWe just did spring cleaning of the downstairs yesterday and it feels so good to be free of the cobwebs, both physically, emotionally and spiritually!
(Ps: Your apron is on its way!)
That's funny and yet happy that they were just cobwebs!
ReplyDeletePraying you see yourself today as Jesus does and not through the cobwebs. He loves you so much and made you just perfect!
I gave you an award on my blog today!!!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great word picture and connection!! I'll pray for God's perspective of ourselves to be overwhelming in our hearts and minds. Sometimes it's so hard to believe the truth of the Word!! Keep that sword up!
ReplyDeleteHello sis. It's your littlest baby bro. first time i'm leaving a comment for your blog.
ReplyDeleteThe men of our church had a breakfast this last saterday and after wards one of them ask me if i would do the prayer for the offering on sunday, this man usually does the prayer but he had been tired from the last couple weeks so i decided to help out and said ''Sure.'' i've done the offering myself a few times before and either prayed only, or said something before the prayer that was biblicaly relevant to life today,
I spent some of that sunday morning muttling over some of Psalms and Proverbs but was'nt getting any inspiration whatsoever, so a prayed quickly and said ''God it's all you, what ever you want me to say at church today is up to you.'' Thats not what i said word for word but you get the idea.
shortly after that the idea struck me to look in Genesis, so i flipped their, after looking over several pages and still not getting anything i was suddenly stopped at chapter six specifically verse 22
Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Still i was'nt sure if i'd use it, my mom came up to me and read your blog entery were you stated Philippians chapter four verses 8-9
So i decided to read over this and even after getting to church i read and re-read them even up to the point of getting up to pray for the offering, I read these verses to our church and tried to imply that no matter what your good at, art, retail,''I emphisiszed our dad with that one wich took him by suprise''
what ever you may be good at, dedicate it to God, no matter what the gift, it is from God, ask him to driect it, especially when your at a loss of what to do with it.
then i quoted gen. 6-22 and told everyone that God told Noah to build a hug ship in the middle of dry land, miles from any water source, he endured 120 years of ridicule from his friends and neihbors, and through all that he never stopped working on that ship. He simply obeyed God's command.
i was thanked by three people after the service and one of them told me that the youth were moved by it.
So i owe you a thank you sis. God used you to give me a little boost in my small hour of need.
Thank you