What's In Your Attic

In a few weeks my parents are moving to a new house in IL. They are going crazy packing and preparing for the move.

Every cabinet needs to be cleaned out... ever drawer organized... every closet purged. Only one space remains.

The attic.

The attic is a place we don't venture often. In fact, I have never been in the attic of my house.

Who knows what is up there. Initially we stick things up there to get them out of the way, but eventually we forget it even exists.

Items that once were so necessary now sit amidst insulation and dust.

Things we no longer use and clearly no longer need. Yet we still hang on to.

Purging is a difficult, freeing, beautiful process. A method by which the unnecessary is removed in order to make room for the necessary.

I don't like the idea of cleaning out my attic. But I like the idea of moving all this excess with us even less.

So purging is what I do. LIke it or not.

Throughout the Old Testament we see purging as a critical step to moving forward. God did not allow His people to advance before removing the impurities first.

Growth is hindered when junk is in the way.

With this in mind it would be wise to take time out to allow God to purge some things in my spiritual attic. Though the process is uncomfortable... the growth on the other side is immeasurably worth it.