Removing the grime

Apparently I am on a bathroom kick in my blogging. Not sure why that is. Obsession? Fascination? A little of both? Whatever the reason, I had a pretty incredible revelation while cleaning my shower the other day and felt the need to share. Now...here it is...get ready to have all your life transformed....

People are like showers!

I know! Unbelievable insight I have, right? However odd it sounds, it is pretty accurate. We are like showers in the way that a shower builds up grime, dirt, and bacteria. This grime is not always visible. Often we can go for weeks without giving our shower a thorough scour, and even then, we may miss those hard to reach corners or just give up because that highly acclaimed "elbow grease" we are supposed to have just isn't enough to power through the dense layers of scum. Then, finally, when you think your shower is perfectly clean and you are staring out the sparkling white tile and shiny knobs, congratulating yourself on a job well done, the grime starts to grow again and threaten your pristine walls and crystal clear glass door. It would seem that the job is never done. You are always having to wash it, scrub it, disinfect it. Inspections are done regularly or maybe you decide its just not worth all the hassle and give up. Letting the dirt take control.

Does this sound familiar? Does it sound like you? I know it sounds like me.

My heart is very much like a shower. I am constantly having to clean out the filth I let cling to the sides and manifest in the corners. Often I don't even recognize the things that are making me unclean, but God always has a way of pointing them out to me. Often subtlety. Sometimes more forcefully. He is aware when I'm not. He is always on the lookout for the grime in my life and wants to purify me and make me whole again. When I get rid of one thing, such as pride or anger, God is quick to show me another area that needs my attention. Very much like a shower, my heart is never clean. Just like my shower constantly needs my attention, so does my heart. I'm a constant work in progress and have resigned myself to the fact that I will always be that way. ;)

But it's so rewarding to scour off, layer by layer, the scum and grime that has built up and to know that I am getting closer and closer to being sparkling white.