A Look Inside: Spiritual Spring Cleaning

Spring Cleaning is an activity that usually requires great effort on the part of the one who wants to see results. You can't expect a room to clean itself. YOU have to do the grunt work, right? It's the same way with our spiritual life. We can say we want to draw closer to the Lord, but are we willing to do some spiritual "spring cleaning" of our own in order for that to become reality? Someone once said, "You can have as much of God as you want". In other words, it's up to us to do the seeking and searching. In Jeremiah 29:13 it says, "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." You can't go half-heartedly into a room, move a few things around, rearrange some drawers, and stuff some junk under the bed, and wipe a rag over the furniture and say you did a deep spring cleaning. No, you might have made things look a bit better on the surface, but you didn't do a deep cleaning. THAT is the kind of cleaning that has lasting results. In order to see LASTING results in our spiritual walk with Christ, we must dig deep into His Word; and allow Him to dig deep into our lives removing whatever He sees fit to remove.

Part of spring cleaning is getting rid of clutter that is taking up space in your home that could otherwise be used for other purposes. In our walk with Christ, we have to get rid of some things that are cluttering up our time with Him if we want a fulfilling relationship with Jesus. Take a few moments today to get quiet before the Lord and allow Him to show you the clutter in your life that He wants you to remove. Allow Him to do a deep cleaning of your life and to get rid of anything that would hinder your walk with Him. Do your part to follow through with what He's asked you to do; then, you will have room in your heart and life for Him to fill you with good things.

"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8

For more ideas on this subject visit Joy Ever After and Borrowed Time Blogging.

Small Spaces Blog Series

I will be participating in a "blog hop" type blog series for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week on how to manage clutter in small spaces. There will be two other blogs participating in this series: Joy Ever After and Borrowed Time Blogging which I will post a link to after each of my posts. Hopefully they will be helpful to you as you try to maintain your "small space"! Stop back tomorrow for the first post!

Spring Top Five Favorites

Here we are on the brink of Spring time! Finally this long winter is about over! I'm going to post my top five favorite things about Spring and then I want YOU to post your top five favorites in the comment box! :0) Here we go!


My Top Five:

1. Warm Weather!
2. New Life-Flowers blooming, trees budding etc.
3. Easter Season
4. Fresh New Start-Clean slate
5. Planting- New flowers, vegetables etc.

Family Fun

Here are some recent pictures of our family. I'm known as the family "shutter bug" so-to-speak, so I'm usually the one to capture the special (since I think EVERY moment with family is special) moments in our lives. :0)


Jen, Jeff, Jerry and Elizabeth getting ready to head out :0)
Jerry and Elizabeth

Joey- 5 months

Jerrod-2 1/2

Jen & Jeff

Jessica and Daddy

Jessica and Jeffery with daddy

Jessica

Our little "cool dude" Jerrod showing off his sunglasses

Bus Convention 2011

It was our privilege to get to attend Bus Convention in Camby, Indiana this year. It was our first time going to Bus Convention, and we certainly enjoyed it!! The sessions were very helpful and it gave us a fresh outlook on our ministry. We especially appreciated the ministry of Rev. James Plank who spoke in the morning devotionals and the evening services. It was a time of spiritual refreshing and filling up.


Luke outside of the Grey Brothers Cafeteria where we went for lunch one day.
UBC Choir singing in the pre-service.

My parents at our motel :0)

Happy Birthday Daddy!

I was out of town over my dad's birthday this year, so I apologize for this late post! I thought it was better late than never though... :0)

I wanted to wish my daddy a VERY Happy Birthday! He is the best dad anyone could every wish for. I have been truly blessed with the best of parents. My dad has always been there for me, even when I know it was inconvenient for him to be. He always puts his family first, (under God of course), and we know we are loved and mean the world to him. Thank you daddy for being a good example for your children to follow. You have led by example before us, and you live what you preach. Your consistent Christian lifestyle gave us the desire to want what you have. Thank you for being that example that we could follow. Love you! Happy Birthday!

Tuesday's Teaching Tips

This is the last of the "Tuesday's Teaching Tips"! Hope it has helped you along the way!

Keep in Touch

Find out your students' birthdays. Buy, make or e-mail cards for them on their day, when they are ill, or just to encourage them. If they have e-mail access, send them homework reminders, encouraging verses, or birthday wishes with snail mail assignments to absent students, or to all of them. Written reminders will assist parents as well as youth.

*eBibleTeacher.com