"Decluttering Your Soul"

Decluttering Your Soul #1

We’re embarking on that time of year, where many will be making resolutions/goals. So, we sit back and reflect and take inventory of the closets of our life and sort through things to see what we no longer want/need in order make room for what we
do want/need. This helps us to have some order, right?

The New Year is a good time to take inventory of our possessions and clean out our storage spaces. But what if we took some time and took inventory of our hearts and declutter our souls?

What do we have the tendency to hold on to that harms our relationship with God? What attitudes cram our hearts and crowd out God’s peace and joy?

~Consider decluttering your souls of Sin~

We all make mistakes and have disobeyed God.

We’ve blurted out hurtful things in the heat of the moment. We find ourselves rushing through life, focusing on our own needs and forget to show kindness or even neglect our relationship with God. 

Sin can weigh down our hearts much like David in Psalm 32:3-4, and in vs 5 he knew the answer to clean out the closet-heart

*3  When I refused to confess my sin,
    my body wasted away,
    and I groaned all day long.
*4  Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.
    My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat. Interlude
*5  Finally, I confessed all my sins to you
    and stopped trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the LORD.”
    And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.

Because Jesus took the punishment for all our sins, big and small, we can receive forgiveness. When we confess our wrongdoings, God completely cleans out the closet of our hearts and makes room for His grace.

Soul Decluttering Step: Read Psalm 32. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal sinful actions you’ve done and harmful attitudes residing in your heart. Ask God to completely clean them out of your soul. Rejoice in His forgiveness and grace.