Last week I went to a RS activity with mini classes and speakers on different topics. As we all walked into the first class the teacher drew our attention to a gentleman who we could see standing outside a glass door that led to the parking-lot. He was cleaning the glass on the door. The teacher said "Don't mind him, he'll be finished soon." I'm sure she hoped that it would not distract from the class. Then she began to share her message. During the class I didn't pay too much attention to the man cleaning the glass door except to notice that he was STILL there, cleaning that same door! The class lasted 30 minutes and toward the end of the class Karen leaned over to me whispered "he's still cleaning!" I had noticed that he was still there, but in that second a question appeared in my mind... "How clean are your windows?" I immediately began writing in my notebook... These questions filled my mind...
How clean are my windows? Are my windows clean enough that I am seeing others the way Christ sees them? Am I seeing my life through clean windows? Do I have an eternal perspective? I noticed that the man cleaning the windows was using super hot water, because I could see steam rising off the rag he was using to wipe the glass. I also noticed that he wasn't wiping quickly (as I do when I clean my windows at home) His movements were slow, precise and I could tell he was using quite a bit of pressure. Throughout the entire 30 min class he had focused on only a small portion of the glass. More questions filled my mind... How hard am I willing to work in order to have a clean, eternal perspective? How hard am I willing to work to see others clearly? To see myself clearly? I realized that to see as God sees will take hard work! In order to have "clean windows" I must be willing to scrub the "dirt" the "hard water build up" and "fingerprints" off my "windows" Eliminating the pride, selfishness, jealousy, misconceptions etc. from my eyes, my mind and my heart will take a lifetime. But it will be worth the scrubbing and hard work! "The light of the body is the eye: If therefore the eye be single (Sincere, without guile, single to the glory of God), thy whole body shall be full of light." Matt 6:22 Jesus is the light! I want to be filled with His light! I must keep asking myself everyday... How hard am I willing to work to be filled with the light of Christ!? Keep on scrubbin' girl! you got this!!!
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