Positive Daily Inspiration – November 3, 2022 – MENTAL HOUSE CLEANING

Jesus said in Matthew 23:26, ” … First make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.”

I am sitting on the front porch of my home writing this and watching the trash truck drive by. At the least, I always wave and smile, and if I’m closer I thank these men and women personally. One of the most valuable things in our world is trash collection. It enables us to get rid of the debris that otherwise would overtake our lives. Can you imagine what our lives would be like without a way to dispose of that which is no longer useful, or needed?

I have been in countries where there is little trash collection and it soon overtakes the people. I was even in New York City one time, when they were having a trash strike, and the same quickly happened.

But what about the inside of ourselves?

I believe that the human mind should also have a trash pickup day – a time to review and to delete that which is no longer needed to be remembered on a daily basis.

I suggest we make a list of what is in our minds when we think of them. I suggest we also list our habits, and even yesterday’s wants. If it does not serve us well, today, let us go to God, and with God’s help, delete the old thoughts, ideas, and outdated dreams and take them out with the trash.

Place these on a piece of paper and make a decision to delete them from your life. This habit, this idea, this worry is no longer needed by you – and you trash it.

Placing these on the piece of paper and identifying them becomes a powerful proactive action, in which you take control of the old, with the new spiritual power given to you by God. You are giving up and letting go and letting God takeover. There is a powerful, spiritual, cleansing activity in and through you, as this takes place. You make the decision to remove it, permanently, from your life.

I have seen some people, after making their list, decide to burn it. Burning a list has no power of itself, other than it is showing to your own human mind that you and God are taking control and it is eliminated.

Your mind sometimes has to be shown, with the eyes, proof that you are taking control, and not the other way around. Many people live, thinking that they have no power over their own minds — this simply is not true.

Remember, it is not enough to just write your list, you must take out the trash, too, and allow it to be permanently removed. You must give it God.

With God’s help, the unwanted, the outdated is eliminated from your daily life.

Say aloud, as you do this, “This is no longer needed, wanted, or acceptable in my life and with God’s help, I turn it into trash – it is eliminated, permanently, from my daily experience. Following Jesus Christ, I now walk on, away from the experience because this is, right now, eliminated, permanently, from my life!”

I believe that we should do a mental housecleaning often. We clean our houses, we clean our businesses, we clean our environment and yet, many never clean the inside of themselves. To live a spiritual life, we must clean the inside of our minds otherwise, daily, in our thinking, we have to walk through the debris of a lifetime.

The spiritual person must empty him or herself in order to be full.

Every time we shower and groom in the morning, we are removing a thin layer of dust and debris. When we go through the cleansing activity of prayer to God, we can remove mountains of old, outdated debris that has created a mental compost that we are not even aware of, and yet affects every single moment of every day in our lives.

It helps, too, when an old thought comes up, to think in the moment, “I need to trash that!” When you do that, you are taking the reins of your life.

Sometimes, we can be surprised by the old thoughts at creep up. You can bury items at a trash dump and they stay buried, but old thoughts are like live worms that reappear by wiggling their way to the surface. You can’t bury a worm because it will always come to the surface again. To get rid of the worm you have to take it out with the trash immediately upon finding the worm.

Like the worm, old thoughts are alive in us, and they live the in the thoughts about what they were created to think about. Did you ever think that you were not good enough? If you did, that thought is still in there, somewhere, unless you have trashed it. Only when we get rid of the old thoughts that we no longer need and want, can we think the thoughts and believe the prayers that we choose to want.

Jesus Christ once said, let all your words and thoughts be either YEA YEA, or NAY NAY. This means that as you do an inventory of yourself, you either say yes, or no, to thoughts and actions.

This is spiritual addition or subtraction the can be the tool to a cleansed life.

So, as you make your list, and put it in the trash, sit on the front porch and watch the trash truck taking away your old thoughts and opinions. Don’t forget to smile and wave, as they take the old, useless, unnecessary away.

POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER:

My God and my strength, I pray that I may possess that expectancy which comes in joyous hope and have the endurance that is controlled by courage and energy. Grant in the future that I may be less concerned about my living and more focused for what I make of my life.

In Jesus Christ’s name … Amen

POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I take time today to eliminate what needs to be eliminated and trashed in my mind.

POSITIVE DAILY QUOTE: “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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