Dirt Behind the Blinds

I know it will be a shock to most of you but I have a confession to make. I don't deep clean our home every week. Seriously, I do try to keep our home clean enough to live in and not be a disgrace if we have visitors. However, deep cleaning isn't something that I do on a regular basis, but something that I do when deemed necessary.

We have blinds on our windows. In the winter, the blinds are usually opened on the sunny sides of the house. On the sides were there is no sun, we might leave them closed to keep out the winter winds.

A couple of mornings ago, I not only opened the blinds but I actually raised one of them. Much to my dismay, there was dirt on the window sill; not just any dirt, but yucky, ugly dirt; the kind that happens when the windows sweat. I rushed to the kitchen for my cleaning solution and a rag and cleaned up the mess thinking to myself all the while that I should never let that happen again. Had I not raised that blind, I would never have known what lay behind it.

Isn't it that way with our hearts? We need to "raise the blinds" once in a while and see what yucky, ugly, dirty stuff has accumulated there. Oh, it accumulates slowly over time and we don't notice it until through some happening in our lives, God points it out to us.

How's your heart? Does it need a good cleaning? Would you be happy if a visitor were to see the mess that is hiding behind the blinds of your heart?

"Create in me a new, clean heart, O God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires." Psalm 51:10 (TLB)