cleaning out the junk

Hey afterSHOCK youth,
     Just wanted to take a minute to share a thought with you.
     Ever have your parents tell you that you needed to clean your room? Of course, we all have. Now have you ever started cleaning up your room and realized that you had some junk that was taking up too much space and not being of benefit to you.  You start realizing that in this "junk" are things you will never again use or look at, things that aren't memories (or aren't good memories), take up space, and in the end are just trash.
     The same thing applies to our spiritual lives. We have to evaluate ourselves and see if there's any "junk".  The spiritual junk is a little different.  It can be a bad attitude, wrong motives, wrong desires, and so on.  These things, just like the junk in your room, is of no benefit to you spiritually.  They will do nothing, but distract you and detour you from the will of God for your life.
     If we truly desire to be the best and obtain the best of what God has for us, we have to "take out the junk".   God shouldn't get our second best or what is left over from the rest, so take out the junk and make way for the BEST!

     Love you guys!
     DK