Is Your Home Cluttered?

Is your home cluttered?  Mine is.  Oh, it’s organized clutter because I do try to keep our home clean and things picked up and put away. But, knick-knacks are here and there everywhere you look.  True, most of them are things that bring back good memories of our life.  But, some are just there because I have nowhere else for them. Or I hate to just discard them thinking I might regret that when something identical shows up on Antique Roadshow worth thousands.

Recently, I was going through my mountain of books and ran across a little paperback by Karen Levine entitled “Keeping Life Simple.”  I opened it and began to read. She gives seven things we need to do to simplify:  Relax your standards, free yourself of stereotypical roles, take time to figure out what is most satisfying to you, create time for the things you care about, learn to enjoy what’s in front of you, learn to be flexible and prioritize. Of course, I think in order to do those things, one first has to de-clutter so your mind can think.

Then I began to think about our lives as Christians. Are our lives cluttered with stereotypical roles?  Do we look at other Christians that we consider to be outstanding in their Christian walk and try to be like them rather than patterning our lives after Christ?  Christ lived a simple, uncluttered life.  He didn’t worry about where His next meal was coming from; didn’t worry about whether He had the latest fashion wear or keeping up with the Joneses. He spent time with His Heavenly Father daily. He spent time ministering to those in need.  He made and taught disciples; simple men who were willing to leave all and follow Him. 

How about your Christian walk?  Do you need to unclutter some of your preconceived ideas of how you should live and just pattern your walk after Christ?

1 Corinthians 14:33 tells us that “God is not a God of disorder but of peace.” And 2 Peter 2:19 makes it clear: “A man is slave to whatever has mastered him.”