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I stood at the edge of the embankment, surveying the debris. The sun glistened on a few items, jaggedly sticking up out of the pile of garbage. I was looking at a landfill – a junkyard, my life. I shut my eyes tightly refusing to look at my own reality.   I felt a  hand, warm and tender resting on my shoulder. Encouraging me to open my eyes and survey the mess laid out before me. My heart thumped steadily against my chest. I wanted to turn and look at whose hand that rested so securely on my shoulder. But I instinctively knew, as a baby in the womb knows the beating of their mothers heart, I knew my Father was with me – revealing all.

How quickly our hearts and minds become landfills – storing up useless, carnal thoughts and desires of this world. My home is not in this world – so how then, have I accumulated so much and why do I hold fast to the things this world has to offer.

Like most, I make choices that breathe life, and choices that extinguish life. Choices driven by the Holy Spirit are life giving, choices driven by my carnal nature are life robbing. Regardless, all have consequences.

Scripture tells us that we, as believers in Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus Christ, must not look to this world for life. Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.

I have no case for an argument. He has written His law on my heart. I look to Him for all I do. It is where I get my nourishment, sustenance to live in a world that is not my home. God showed me today, that I have allowed my life – heart and thoughts, to accumulate so much garbage. As I stood on that embankment, searching for something of value – God in His mercy and compassion showed me that even though the garbage seemly engulfed me, the sun continued to shine on those pieces of me that belong to Him and which He still takes delight in.

One of the greatest life giving statements to me found in scripture is what the apostle Paul wrote, 2 Corinthians 12:10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. I too, take delight in my weakness, my carnal sinful nature. Because it is a stark reminder, that without Jesus, I am nothing. Only through Him do I have life and purpose. I pray, as I continue my journey that God will continue to guide me and sustain me – I am confident He will!