It’s a new day, a new month, a new season, and soon a new year.  It’s the Christmas season, a time of busyness and excitement!  The new year is fast approaching; resolutions are being made.  It’s a great time of newness.

 

As a child looks forward to new toys, mom is looking at where will those new toys will “live.”  So she cleans the clutter, throws out broken toys, gives away unused toys, and makes room for those new things arriving Christmas morning. 

 

Are we doing the same in our own lives, not just for the new year, but on a daily basis?  Not just a physical clearing, but a mental clearing?

 

My resolution for the new year is to clear the clutter, simplify, and make room for even more of the Word of God to live in my mind and my life. 

 

As we know from the Word of God, once a year is not the only time to clear the clutter.  It’s a daily, hourly, and moment by moment action. 

 

II Corinthians 10:5

 

Casting down imaginations (the senses running wild, our old man), and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God (His Word is where we find that knowledge), and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

 

The average person has about 48.6 thoughts per minute, according to the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at the University of Southern California.  This would keep me very busy and I wouldn’t get one other thing done if this was all I did with my natural man.  But God doesn’t give us instruction without a way for us to do it. 

 

Ephesians 4:23

 

              And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; (The spirit is the Holy Spirit, the perfect Spirit that dwells within us).

 

Ephesians 4:24

 

 

This is the only way we can control our thoughts – clearing the clutter the world is bombarding us with every moment of the day.  This has been the desire of those that seek after the Lord for centuries. 

 

As David wrote in Psalm 51:10

 

              Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right (steadfast) spirit within me.

 

We, as God’s children, have that right spirit in us!  We have the ability to change worldly, confusing thoughts to God’s perfect thoughts – as we listen to Him (that still voice within us) and learn more about God’s will for us and claim those promises and directions He has given us.

 

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  I’m looking forward to clearing the clutter!