Prisoners & Trash

I was driving down the road yesterday and I saw about 6 prisoners picking up trash. As I drove on by them I began to think about prisoners and trash. The Lord is always so faithful to give me life applications. I thought about how I have been a prisoner..not in jail but in bondage to sin, and  the only way out of that bondage or sin is to allow God to pick the trash out of my own life.

But you know it’s a weird thing how we get used to the smell and the taste of our trash. In fact, we would sometimes rather sit in the middle of our trash than to get out of it. In our trash heap lies pain, disappoinments, addictions, complete dysfunctions, unhealthy friendships, lies, bitterness, gossip, judgemental attitudes, hatred, unforgiveness…the list goes on and on.

Tell me how the pain of all these things feels better than the freedom that can be found in Christ Jesus? The pain becomes a drug to our flesh. It will have you hooked quicker than heroine. Every part of our body becomes involved. I know I have found it to be true in my own life. We feel justified by our trash and we intend on letting everyone know about it.

I would encourage the prisoners out there today to allow the Lord to take a peek into your trash heap or can. He wants to remove it from you. But it’s for your own good. You see His child is suppose to be free from that trash. Visualize yourself in that trash heap….the Lord comes to you and you lift your arms out to Him and He and only He has the strength to lift you out of it. He gently takes you by the hand and lifts you up out of the heap. He will then begin to pick that trash off of you one piece at a time.

Jesus Christ came to set us free. I ask you this….why are you still living like you are a prisoner?

Galatians 5:1 says, It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.  

I pray that today will be the day that you become set free. He will gladly take your trash and replace it with His grace, unfailing love, and mercy.  All you have to do is ask Him.