Cleaning Your Room

Part of becoming a disciple is cleaning up your own room. I have 3 daughters. 4 years old, 3 years old, and 1 year old. My two oldest HATE cleaning their room. Whenever I tell them that it is time to clean their room they turn on their tears and say, "daddy, I just don't like cleaning my room" This is how i feel when God is telling me to "clean my room". 

God wants us to deal with our stuff. To deep clean our room. He wants us to be holy. He wants us to be pure. It blood shed on the cross so we could be pure. For sure I have issues, we all do. We all have things that we need to take care of. Addictions, marriages falling apart, financial debt, whatever the issue, we need to take care of it. We need to seek God, press into him like we have never done before, and let God change us from the inside out.  

I tell God all the time "I just don't like cleaning my room". I want to take the easy way out. However I know that to be a Disciple of Christ, I cannot take the easy way out.

Romans 12: 1-2

New Living Translation (NLT)

Therefore I urge you brothers and sisters, in view of Gods mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, Holy and pleasing to God. This is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the patters of this world,  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve whats Gods will is. His good, pleasing, and perfect will. 

 Corinthians 6:19-20

New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁹ Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, ²⁰ for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

Philippians 4:6-7

New Living Translation (NLT)

⁶ Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. ⁷ Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.