Yes, I am spring cleaning. I was thinking about all the troubling, heart wrenching things going on in our world. The tsunami that has brought with it loads and loads of devestating destruction, the sex trafficking epidemic, seeing in print yesterday that 1 in 6 Americans are hungry... All of this is going on while I tediously take my light fixtures apart and hand wash each and every fixture piece.
I was just commenting earlier today that I don't know where to start with all the needs... what should I do? I don't feel like I have time, and yet with the first few hours I find without homework - I am cleaning my light fixtures.
Something is so wrong with the way we live here. Middle Class Suburban America - we gave our Saturday away to maintaining the central vac, cleaning carpets, dusting ceiling fans, scouring window sills and cleaning light fixtures. All of these things have to be done in order to be good stewards of the things we have, but our priorities are askew. In fact, we are waaayyy off target.
The problem is, when Jesus commands us to sell all that we have and follow Him, does He mean it literally in our culture? Am I so caught up in fear and comfort that I refuse to acknowledge that command for what it is?
It seems easier to think in terms like these if I was feeling called to serve in a bush country somewhere overseas where people survive in huts with dirt floors on a daily basis. Yes, Jesus, I will follow you there. But, He is calling me to follow Him HERE, and I can't figure out what that really looks like.
Then you must put down your vacuum and your dust rag and get on your knees. Pray without ceasing and gather with your prayer buddies and ask them to pray with you and for you. Then be still and wait for an answer. Ask yourself, 'where do my passions lie? And what are the injustices that make my blood boil?' then follow where the Lord leads and He will lead you where you are needed for His work. I will pray for direction for you.
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