Daily Devotional – 4/10/13 “Spring cleaning to revive your dead life!”

Yea, it’s spring and not only is it time for spring cleaning but it’s also time for some spring revival. No, I don’t mean at your home but I mean in your head, heart, body, life and spirit. See, clean means not dirty or free from dirt or impurities. Unadulterated clean means containing no foreign matter and morally upright clean means just that morally pure and upright. Now, revival means a renewal of interest in something and recovery revival means the revival of life, consciousness, or full strength. With the definition of both of these, that should be enough right now for you to clean out all the dirt that’s causing the detour to your destiny and the mess that’s making you miss the meaning of God’s message. Yea, it’s time you did some spring cleaning to revive your dead life! You don’t have to broadcast it to the world but you need to renew your faith because it has flat lined. You don’t have to tell me but you need to clean out your heart because it has hardened full of hell. You don’t have to be baptized again but you need to renew your spirit because it’s shaky and struggling to survive. You don’t have to stand in the shower but you need to clean your body because the battle has left you bruised, bitter and broken instead of bringing you out better, bold and blessed. Yeah, you need to do some spring cleaning to revive your dead life!

Start by wiping the dust from your eyes so that you’ll see that you aren’t all that and a bag of chips. Yes, you have faults too and the world doesn’t owe you so stop acting like it. If you need, want or got to have it; work for it. Next, wash out your mouth and stop with all the woe is me or won’t nobody help me talk, stop talking about other folk because they don’t look like they’re struggling, stop judging and work on that cursing because the last thing someone wants to hear is a nice dressed young man or woman talking like a sailor. Next, you need to pull up your pants or pull down your skirt and your shirt. No one wants to see your underwear and if you’re over 30, I really don’t want to see your stomach or your thighs. If truth shall be told, I don’t want to see the stomach, breast, thighs, butt and underwear of no one of any age. Next, you need to clean up your spiritual attitude. Yea, it’s alright with me if you don’t go to church (because you’ll be judged by God and not me) but stop complaining about the church that you don’t even attend. I don’t want to hear your opinion about where the tithe money is going, what the pastor is doing, what the members aren’t doing and who Sis. So & So is sleeping with. Get your life together! Baby, you need to do a little spring cleaning to revive your dead life because even though you’re living and breathing, you’re still dead if your spirit isn’t right. You need to clean out the junk and get your joy back. Revive that spirit and get your shout back. Clean out that garbage and use your gifts. Revive your heart and get your happiness back. Clean out that old stuff that’s spoiling your sleep and renew your strength so that you can stand and not stumble, serve instead of sitting, stay instead of sinking and succeed instead of suffering. Clean out the crap that’s causing you to condemn instead of conquering, be cruel instead of comforting and complaining instead of commending so that you renew your character instead of conforming to the changes that cause conflict in your Christianity. Yea, it’s time for you to do some spring cleaning in order to revive your dead life before you’re dead without a life to live!