There's Trash Under My Pew!!!!

Oh my goodness! I recently took a good long look at the floor underneath our pew at church. If you are a regular church goer then you have your own pew. You know how it is, right? What I found was both startling and disturbing.

I have a family of 5. 1 wife - 3 daughters. There was so much trash under our pew! Just a few of the items were: candy wrappers, cough drop wrappers, Sunday School Paperwork, a chewed fingernail(mine), etc. etc. It was horrendous! It took so long to clean up after service that I missed out on visiting with our friends and church family. I left church kind of frustrated.

Then I started thinking...

Recently my family made up our minds to keep our house clean. Glory to God our house has stayed clean for over 2 months now! Here is the thing, we kept our house clean by making minor adjustments. Minor adjustments is how you keep a house clean. Not by letting stuff pile up and then having 15 "spring cleanings" per month, but by picking one small thing up when it's left out.

It's the same situation under my pew. I will keep it clean by making minor adjustments. I will pick up just that one stray wrapper, then it will stay clean all the time.

"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."1Corinthians 6:19-20

My question to you, dear reader, is what is under your pew? What is it that is keeping you away from friends or relatives or Jesus or His gifts that He longs to give you? Is there something piling up under your pew that you are spending all of your time trying to keep picked up?

If you keep your pew clean from gossip, grudges, grieving, hate, etc. then you will have more time in your life to enjoy other things that God has in store for you. If you are spending all of your time on the trash under your pew, your missing out. Minor adjustments is all it takes.