“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” Jeremiah 17:10

Finishing the yogurt for breakfast, I opened up the door to throw away the plastic carton in the recycle bin. But the door hardly opened! The recycle can was so full, it was keeping the door from opening. So I reached my hand up under the counter, pressed down on the garbage and opened the door. Then I took the whole can outside to the recyclable can.

No… it was not an amazing feat. Yes… I should not have let the recycle bin get so full. Sure… it pointed to a tiny streak of laziness on my part. You bet… I made a kinda sternly promise to myself to be more diligent in the future. But I guess I’ll see how it goes. To ‘take out’ or ‘stamp down’ seems to be the call on the collecting of garbage. ‘What’ and ‘when’ do I?

I have found that dealing with my collection of trashy things I do and think is similar to collecting the garbage in my house. Just being alive makes collecting trash a given. I am a spiritual being in a fleshy body. The 2 are ALWAYS at odds. The one that tends to take over and dominate my life is the one that gets ignored the most. Paying attention is important.

God says in today’s verse that He WILL repay everyone according to their conduct and deeds that they DO. Being a Christian and fully forgiven does NOT absolve me from ’takin’ out the trash’ that collects in my life. Yes… trash IS inevitable! But I have learned that the more trash I have collected, the less likely I will have a trash dominated mindset! So I clean house!

No… this is not a great big mind blowing Word of the Day. But it DOES show the importance of keeping my mind, eyes and heart on Jesus… and NOT on TRASH! That is why I get up each day and start it with Him. I don’t want the trash to overtake HIS place in my heart. How about YOU? How does YOUR trash bin look?