Suppose your life for the last 10 years was laid out on your kitchen floor. Every moment, decision and event that happened. What would your floor say about you and the last year or decade you experienced.
My kitchen floor would show evidence of stress, illness, unworthy, misunderstood and the feeling of being lost. All these things created dirt piles on my kitchen floor. Each year would come and go, with new promises of change and direction. However, it is hard to change unless you can define the problem or the root of these dirt piles.
So today I pulled out the mop and the bucket to wash my floor. My life needed some cleaning and redirection.
"So I confessed my sins and told them to you. I said, "I'll tell the LORD each one of my sins". Then you forgave me and took away my guilt." ( Psalm 32:5 - Contemporary English Version )
I asked God to fill my pail with forgiveness, that he may wash away these sins. So that I can start this decade and year on a clean floor. With each pile of dirt washed, I felt the load on my soul lessen. Sometimes the mop felt heavy in my hand, but as soon as it touched the flowing forgiving waters of God it no longer carried that burden.
When I look forward to the years ahead, the LORD will fill my bucket and guide my mop for a cleaner path. These dirt piles might try to pile up again, but I am now armed with the mop and bucket to wash them away.
"A Man's heart plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps"
( Proverbs 16:9 - New King James Version)
©Jasmin Roussy
