Dear mother, God has commissioned you to be part of a great building program, the building and strengthening of your family. There is no greater building program in the nation. Building each individual family builds the nation and continuing generations.
However, you can’t effectively build if there is trash in the way. Physically and spiritually. When they were building the wall in Nehemiah’s day, the workers complained that they couldn’t continue building the wall because there was so much rubble to be moved. Nehemiah 4:10 (HCSB) says: “The strength of the laborer fails, since there is so much rubble.”
Do you have rubbish in your home (not just literal trash, but sin and hindrances that grieve the Holy Spirit) that are piling up? Stop. Don’t continue living this way any longer. It’s impossible to build with trash all around you.
Ask God to help you deal with the trash. Talk to your family about it and encourage everyone in the family to get involved in the clean up!
Throw out anything and everything that hinders your great building program.
Hebrews 12:1 (NLT) applies to us individually and as families: “Let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.”
Blessings to you today from Nancy Campbell