Valuable Real Estate
Valuable Real Estate
You have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3:9b-10 (NIV)
Lord God, help us to live lives uncluttered by useless things. Give us wisdom and insight to see what is crowding our soul, and courage to put it aside.
With the Lenten season beginning this week, I’m trying to pay attention to my spiritual real estate. What things are cluttering up my soul? What practices and habits are useless, taking up valuable space in my life and heart, keeping me from living out God’s purposes in my life? God’s pointed out a few of them, and I’ve committed to giving them up for the period of Lent. Whether you practice giving up something for Lent or not, you can ask God to help you take stock, and assess whether something needs to be cleared out of your own spiritual real estate.
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