Across the Preacher’s Desk: Clutter On The Desk

February 3, 2022 - It’s probably a good thing you cannot really see what’s “across the preacher’s desk”! There are a couple of coffee cups, various file folders, several stacks of books, yellow legal pads with sermons and Bible class lessons in various stages of completion (or incompletion, depending on your point of view) and then assorted papers, trinkets, numerous pens, well, you get the idea. The “preacher’s desk is messy and cluttered. Truth be told, I have always said that a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind in my attempt to justify my mess.

Occasionally, I have a spell where I clean my desk and put everything away and everything looks neat and orderly. However, it is never a permanent solution. Sometimes my desk reminds me of Kudzu the way the “mess” seems to grow, multiply and just take over.

The mess on my desk does remind me that I don’t have it all together and that if we are honest, we will admit that none of us has it all together. Our lives are not neatly ordered. Our lives get messy and cluttered. All of us carry baggage. Paul would write that “all have sinned and come short of the glory of God” in Romans 3:23. When we realize our lives are messy, when we realize we have sinned, we can come to Jesus for forgiveness and he will clean up our lives. We must make Him Lord and Master of our lives and live life His way.

It’s something to think about… tbp

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