“We are God’s home”

“For God’s home is holy and clean and you are that home.” I Corinthians 3:18

Verse reflections:  The verse from yesterday fills me with awe and reverence that we are the temple of God.  It reminds me of His magnificence.  The verse today fills me with a down home comfortable feeling like putting on my pajamas and snuggling down in my home for a great evening.  I like both images.  I am a little different in that I love to clean my home.  I also love when I have a person come and clean my home for me because I am too busy at work.  I just like a clean home.  I love walking in the door after a 50 hour work week knowing I can relax.  I relax when I don’t have 50 tasks to do before I can enjoy my home.  It makes my home a haven, a place of refuge.  It makes me happy when people can drop by and I don’t have to run around picking up.  Think of God coming to visit inside our body.  I am so proud that right now I can invite Him in and show Him around.  He will see my healthy eating choices, the results of my exercise.  I am sure it is cleaner inside there than it has been in a while.  I won’t have to apologize and run around hiding the cookies, bread & butter, chips and dip and resulting surges of insulin or high cholesterol.  Because He knows the home just went through a few years of being hit by a hurricane I won’t even apologize for any extra weight.  I am proud because it is clean today!  It is holy, and set apart from the past.  I am going to imagine me in my pajamas inside my stomach today waiting on God’s visit!

Prayer:  I just love Your word God.  I love the images it stirs in my mind.  Thank You for working with me to clean Your home.  I want You as a permanent roommate.  I know I have to talk to You to keep our relationship going, communication is key in any home.  I know I have to study Your word, have quiet time in order to hear Your voice.  This, I have found is the key to my success in this lifestyle change.  It is the days I don’t stop for thirty minutes that I cannot fight the temptation.  I think the devil with the microphone watches me and waits on me to not talk to You.  He rubs His hands in glee when I run around in the morning too busy to stop and I dash out the door.  Then He waits on the right moment and yells in my ear.  I think I allow You to wrap Your arms around my ears when I listen to You in the mornings.  The good news in Sindy, Your angel and You still have power that far exceeds His megaphone even when I don’t stop.  I am learning Father that this 30 minutes each day is the most important 30 minutes in my life.  Thank You for being the kind of roommate that helps me clean our home even when I don’t pick up on certain days.  Today I welcome You in our home.  Give me the power to keep it clean and set apart.  Love You roomie.