We were having friends over for dinner on Saturday and I was cleaning house, not necessarily because we were entertaining, but because it had been a busy couple of weeks and the house was a bit of a mess. I started with the dining room because I knew we would spend a lot of time in there.
I removed the inevitable clutter that occurs when you have a room that doesn’t get used very much, but just happens to have a table. I vacuumed and mopped and dusted. I was feeling pretty good about how it looked. Then I turned on the overhead light.
To my complete dismay, there were thin little cobwebs all over the chandelier. Before I swept them away, I took note of the fact that I didn’t even know they were there until I turned the light on. But, once the light was on, they were very noticeable. What if I had waited until our guests arrived to turn on the light? I would have been terribly embarrassed.
While I finished cleaning, those tiny, seemingly invisible, cobwebs stayed on my mind. I found them in quite a few other rooms too. Each time, they were invisible until I turned on the light and looked up.
Lent is the time of year when we are called to repent and refocus our lives on God. The cobwebs reminded me that oftentimes, we feel like we are doing just fine spiritually. But, the Bible can give us little a check up on our own prognosis.
The Bible tells us to, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6
In other words, to know that we are spiritually on the right path, we have to spend regular time with God and read the Bible regularly too. How else will we know God’s ways? We can’t, because the Bible also tells us that, our thoughts and ways are not God’s thoughts and ways.
But, we can align our thoughts and ways with God’s with the help of the Holy Spirit, prayer and the Bible. When we earnestly seek to do that, we are filled with peace beyond comprehension.
The cobwebs in our lives are the little things that are seemingly insignificant, but keep us from shining our lights the best way we possibly can. Perhaps Lent is the perfect time to ask God to shine His light on our cobwebs, whatever that may be and to help us remove them for good.
Then when Easter comes and we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, we can also celebrate our newly cleaned and sparkling lights as well, as we join together with all Christians to spread the Good News.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂