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Dirty like a Ceiling Fan
I got home from work Saturday morning and I went to turn on my light in my room. Well, when I turned on the switch, the light was off, but the ceiling fan started up. All of a sudden I hear fan blades crashing against the ceiling. I couldn’t see anything, because it’s dark when I get home, so I turned off the switch real quick. I pulled the cord to turn off the fan and turn on the light, hit the switch again, and I come to find my ceiling fan hanging by a couple of cords. And as I looked around my room, it was covered with dust all over the place from the ceiling fan.
Now, I’m usually a pretty clean person, but I had been neglecting cleaning the blades on my ceiling fan. The fan’s always on, going round and round and round again, so I never get around to cleaning it (that’s a lot of rounds). And plus, it wasn’t bothering me, so no need to clean it, right? So I had to pull out the vacuum and clean it all up.
Sometimes our lives can get like that ceiling fan. We go round and round, staying busy doing whatever it is we do, and along the way we start piling up dirt. The thing about that fan is that it can’t clean itself. The dirt and dust will continue to pile up more and more until someone comes and cleans it off. The same is true with us. We can’t clean ourselves. The only way that we can be made whole is if God comes and wipes us clean.
We all live busy lives, especially in the world we live in today. We live in a technological age where it seems like we’re always connected. Cell phones, Internet, TV, Video Games and every other thing you can imagine seem to preoccupy our time. It’s so easy to stay busy. And it’s so hard for us to just stop everything we’re doing and make time for God.
The flesh is constantly at battle with the Spirit. Why do you think it is so hard to pray? I don’t know about you, but every time I decide to get into prayer, it seems like a million different things come up. I’ll get a call on the phone. I’ll remember I forgot to put the clothes in the dryer. I’ll all of a sudden get hungry. Or just every other little distraction comes up. The choice is there, do I stop everything and get into God’s presence, or do I put it off till later? And truthfully, later never seems to come when we do put it off.
Does everything in our lives need to come crashing down before we go to God? Like the poor ceiling fan, does it need to fall apart before it gets cleaned? I think many times that’s why we struggle as Christians. We don’t make time for God. We don’t truly “Put Him First” in our lives. We put everything else ahead of Him and say, “I’ll pray when I get time to pray.” When truly, what we really need to do is pray before we do anything at all.
Prayer should be a daily thing. Just like you wash up every day and brush your teeth and comb your hair (well most of us do at least), you should go to God and ask Him to cleanse you every day. After days and days of not showering you start building up dirt and start smelling kind of funny. The same is true in our Spiritual lives when we go days and days without going to God.
So, how have you started your day off?
w/muchluv,
geno
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