.Clean from head to toe.

Today is a Monday and if Binghamton University hadn't declared it a "traveling day" I would be stuck in the classroom learning about audit procedures or business level  functions. However, I have been blessed with the day off! Yay!!

So what do you think this girl did on her day off? She cleaned. Not only did was I able to clean my room and my car, I also was able to update many of my devices. My Ipod. Blackberry, GPS, and computer needed some attention and they finally got the attention they deserved.

With all of this free time spent cleaning, I decided to do a spiritual cleanse as well. I have been devouring the book of Galatians. It just fills my heart in ways that I cannot begin to explain. I feel like every time I read, I am seeing something for the very first time. Today I read Galatians 6 and I want to share two different points that stuck out to me.

1- Galatians 6:7 says, " Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that he will also reap." So what's so great about this verse? I have been deceived, I have been thinking to myself that I can hide my sins from Jesus. In my mind, I have secret sins that no one knows about. Normally, it's my rotten attitude buried beneath my fake smiles, but it doesn't matter. God knows. What I am sowing, I am reaping. my bad attitude comes out when I least expect it. God is not mocked. How have I been able to live like this for so long? Who taught me that I would be able to hide things from my all-knowing Savior? Phew! Glad I figured that one out... probably for the umteenth time...

2- Galatians 6:9-10 says, "And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith."  Now the first part of the verse, I have heard a thousand times, it is the second part of the verse that really struck me today. As I have opportunity, I should be doing good. However, as I have the opportunity, I should be doing good to my brothers and sisters in Christ. So when do I not have opportunity? Uh never! There is always something to be done, always someone to encourage. I am the girl who smiles at people when they walk by. However, what about those who are closest to me. How have I encouraged them lately? I haven't and I am sorry for that. God has done a great work in me and I should be happy to pass that onto someone else or at least do good to them.

So that's it folks. Maybe those things hit you like they hit me, maybe not. Either way I think today I have some spring in my step and an awful clean room and heart! {Huge Smile}