Am I Like My Pocketbook?

Am I Like My Pocketbook?

So many things crammed inside, some things hard to find, others to my embarrassment exposed right on top….I’m embarrassed to even look inside around others…

Am I like my bag – my bag which holds receipts, shoes a bus pass, money, change, lipgloss, eyeliner, a bible, pens, a notebook, tissues and empty candy wrappers? Am I like my bag holding onto a bunch of things in one spot, giving equal attention or priority to everything my bag contains being piled on top one of another? Have I become so full, heavy and difficult to carry sometimes? Could it be that I am like my bag? Well, its insides do reflect a part of who I am, what it contains and how neatly it is arranged…I am hoping that this bag does not reflect me.

Could my temple be so junky inside? I wonder sometimes what my God sees when He is looking at me and does it look similar to my pocketbooks’ insides? Am I still holding onto things in the past? Oh there is so much inside it can make you gasp! Jam-packed with old receipts – showing the holding on to the past and indecisiveness about the future ( whether or not I’m returning the item which most likely, I’m not) though I myself need to restart wondering if its time for me to go back to the molding table or even if I ever got there yet; for He is the potter and I am the clay.

Realizing its a shame to carry so much junk around. So much baggage like my heart mind and body that needs to be eliminated in order to make carrying my bag, pocketbook easy light and free.

Accessing easily what is already inside that I need like my bible, tissues money and makeup, FORGIVENESS, GRATITUDE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS.

Noticing that like my bag I need to be dumped out and cleaned out!

Needing to re-prioritize what gets kept inside my temple and what trash needs to be removed like, empty candy wrappers, receipts and old makeup. Like UNFORGIVENESS, IMPATIENCE, LUST, JEALOUSY & GREED…things that try to get in the way of reaching the valuable things to me that I need inside…like my bible, bus pass, money, change, FORGIVENESS, PATIENCE, LOVE, JOY that resides deep within, so that I MUST go before my God so that He may clean…

…My temple – so like my pocketbook I don’t become a cluttered mess carrying around a whole lot of heavy baggage and burdens that don’t belong there anyway.

Have I become like my bag letting the outside conditions affect my appearance?…The wear & tear and sin of the world along with my own sins imposing spots on my outer fabric or physical being?

Needing to daily be dusted off and cleaned up by my Father’s forgiveness!

Like my bag needing to be renewed and not thrown away – when I was new, I was clean and organized needing to regroup and reassemble..can’t be like my bag thrown anywhere …needing to take care by being mindful of where I go and what I see..my environment around me so like my bag I can still function yet without spot or stains without sin.

Knowing that my bag holds my valuables truly I should care gently for such a device ~ but then I also hold something even more valuable in my temple – my soul – my LIVING GOD.

1st Corinthians 3:16

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Let’s get cleaned up! God Bless! Pray my strength in the Lord!

Written by Poetikmind