Kevin and I have had the awesome opportunity to spend a little time with some of AIM's future World Racers.  (check out
www.theworldrace.org
for info on this incredible program)  In talking with one of them the Lord has begun to do a work in me and I thought I might share a little of that here...maybe to solidify it in my own heart and possibly encourage anyone who happens upon this site...

The Lord is challenging me to clean my house.

I am walking through this in the physical realm right now...putting clothes that I have not worn since college... that have been taking space up in my closet..into bags to be removed from my life!! 

I have been holding onto them because I used to like them...I used to be small enough to fit into them...they remind me of a really fun season of my life...but they are no longer me...I am a new person, in a new season of life and I simply have no use for them anymore.

What if I did hold onto them...just in case...they might come back in style...I might get back down to that size...wouldn't it feel good to slip into a pair of jeans that fit me when I was 19...

I have had a revelation....
NO!!! 

Even if they do come back into style...even if I do shrink 3 jeans sizes...

I DO NOT WANT TO WEAR MY OLD CLOTHES!!! 

I want to wear 
NEW CLOTHES that represent who I am
NOW and who I am
BECOMING!!! 

This has so much spiritual significance it is blowing my mind right now...

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Cor. 5:17  "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

Eph. 4:22-24 "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on your new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness."

Col. 3:9-10  "...since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. v.12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience."

Lord, keep me motivated to not only clean my physical house, but more importantly, my spiritual house.