how clean is your life?
Have you ever watched the Channel 4 show ‘How Clean is Your House?’ It features a couple of ladies called Kim and Aggie helping people whose houses are beyond messy. They help the people see quite how dirty, and in some cases dangerous, their house really is. Kim and Aggie then help them to clean their house whist giving them helpful tips on how to maintain it so it won’t ever get that messy again.
I find myself watching this programme and thinking to myself ‘how on earth did they let their house get that bad, and how do they live in there?’ In each episode the people living in the house seem to give the same answer to these questions. They say that it started of just being a little bit messy but quickly became so bad that it seemed like too much work to get it clean so they just got used to living in those disgusting conditions.
Kim and Aggie always manage to get it clean in the end, and the people in the house always find it quite easy to keep it that way.
I don’t know how you feel about how tidy a house should be, but maybe you should think about how clean your life is right now.
Sometimes, even if we want to be doing the right thing, we feel like there is too much mess in our life, too much rubbish from our past or too many hurts. We can look at our lives in the same way that those people look at their houses. We can decide that it’s just too big of a job for us to get it clean so we just learn to live with it the way it is, but like those people’s houses, it’s not healthy and it’s not safe!
The fantastic news is that we have our own Kim and Aggie, and His name is Jesus! If we ask Him, He can wash our lives completely clean, getting rid of all that rubbish for good, all we have to do is ask Him. You can do this by praying this prayer:
‘Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life.
Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing.
Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health.
God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life’.
Psalm 51 v 7-10 (The Message)
Once Jesus has blitzed all the dirt from your life, it’s then down to you to maintain it. You need to think about what mistakes you have made and learn from them. If you do this you will feel an incredible sense of relief and hopefully others will be able to see the change in you.
So this week take some time to think ‘How Clean is My Life’ and remember that no job is too big for Jesus.
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