Spring Heart Cleaning

Ok, so since I will have to miss Bible Study this coming Saturday, I decided I would give my input via blog. Also, seeing as how the subject is completely unrelated to our study, it will give you something else to think about as the week progresses. So let me get started…

Ezra and I have both been doing our separate “read through the Bible” devotions, though he plans to read through the Bible 4 times this year, and I have been working on my first time for more than a year now. Somehow, we ended up at the same spot just before spring break (in Isaiah and Jeremiah) and were discussing how each of those were very difficult reads. Ezra began talking about how he was being convicted severely of some idols that are in his life that he needs to get rid of. That got me thinking about it too, but at the time and seeing as how I do not have vices in the same areas, I couldn’t think of what idols might be in my own life. So I did a dumb thing and asked God to reveal any idols to me that might be getting in the way.

I wracked my brain, trying to think of anything that I put before God, or that distracts me from his Word. Then, slowly, over the next two weeks, I began to see (especially with all the time I spent in bed last week) that the little thing that had slipped in between the cracks, was so ridiculous, it was almost laughable. I was wasting ridiculous amounts of time playing the little games on my phone. Yes, I said it Phone Games. Then, on Saturday, I was reading Ezekiel Chapter 14, and somehow the verses about idols hit me smack in the face.

Now this is something a little more recent, as I have felt other things taking too much of my time in the past, such as Facebook or computer puzzles etc, and have pulled back from them. But I really felt convicted. So, I thought, in order for me to really see if this is an idol in my life, I need to take a whole week off of phone games. I know it sounds silly, but that’s just it, idols hide in little innocent things, where you would never think to look. And the result was really terrible. It has been quite hard for me not to open a single game. When I’m sitting at work with not a single customer for two hours, or when I’m waiting for 10 minutes for Ezra to run into the store, or when I’m at home and need to relax my brain for a bit. I have been choosing to read my Bible instead, since the program is on my phone too, and I’m only on day 4, and already I can see that I allowed those games to take up so much time that I could have been using to hear from God. What a wake up call! So all the spring cleaning that I had hoped to do in my house this spring break, actually ended up to be more of a heart cleaning. Do you have any spring heart cleaning you need to do???