Well it’s a Friday and for the first time in three months I have the ability to stay home and do nothing. So we scheduled to have our carpets cleaned. You need to understand the significance of this for a moment, clean carpets mean a lot to me. Maybe because growing up ours was always cluttered and dirty. Yeah that’s probably where the obsession roots from. Anyways, I’m sitting here as the guys cleans our carperts with his little machine, and for the next 6 months they will look pretty clean on the surface. But we all know it’s only a surface cleaning I am paying for. The work being done does not remove the dirt that is “set in” to the padding lying just below the thin layer of off white fibers.
How often do we treat our personal life in this manner. I know I do. It looks good on the surface but the dirt and grime of my choices still remain under the surface untreated because many times the quick cleaning is sufficient. I use Kiwi Carpet Cleaners cause they come with the one year warranty. Anytime I need them they come back and clean the surface all over again. Over and over again. Weekly if I want them too. Sound like life? So how do we live in a way that is not like a surface level of cleanliness? Is it possible? The Apostle Paul struggled with this same topic 2,000 years ago, and he was in many ways the greatest follower of Christ to walk the earth. I took the time to read Philippians 3 today and I am reminded of what really matters…
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
I don’t do things right all the time, but this verse serves as a reminder that that is what makes life, life. It’s how we deal with those shortcoming and under the surface dirt that really matters. So today, I press on.
