Swifters

Why is it on Labor Day weekend we decide to do lots of labor?  I always have a list a mile long of things to take care of on long weekends.  This weekend, as usual, it is cut grass, clean house, scrub floors and I am determined to finish this wallpaper stripping.  This morning I unpacked my fall clothes...can you believe it...today is suppose to be the hottest day of the year and next week we are in the 60's.  I left the sweaters in boxes but got out the long sleeve shirts and blouses and put up the summer short sleeve stuff. 

Time to clean up and clean out.  You have to do that in your life sometimes.  It is really hard to look at your life and see the dirt there when you are in the midst of it and living in the filth.   You get used to it and comfortable with it and sometimes think...this is the way life is.  But things happen that make you step back and look hard at it all sometimes...and you see the dirt hidden in the corners and hiding under the beds.

Have you seen those commercials for Swifters?  The dirt is hanging out at the space bar...looking for love...and can't find it until the Swifter comes along.  Sometimes you need to pull out the Swifter in your own life...run it over yourself and pick up the dirt. 

As Christians we also need to look at the dirt in our lives...the things that keep us far from God.  The things that separate us from him.. He is our Swifter.  He wipes us clean and if we are lucky we fall in love with him. 
I laugh when I think of God using a Swifter but he has to clean just like we do!  Much more. 

So this Labor Day as you are laboring...think about the dirt in other parts of your life you need to clean up and ask God to come and do some cleaning!