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Reclaiming the House

I have had 4 puppies and 2 adult dogs living at my house for the past 2 months, almost 8 weeks to be exact.  That makes 6 dogs at my house for those of you at home keeping track.  When they were newborns, it was easy to take care of them.  They couldn’t see, I just had to make sure that their mom could get into them and we were good.  Then their eyes opened and they started to get curious.  I was still okay because they couldn’t get out of the enclosure that we put them in, unless we would take them out for their daily play time.  They then learned how to escape said closure and I would find them in some interesting places around my house.  It was interesting.  During this time, my adult male dog decided that  he wanted to claim my house as often as the little ones have had accidents.  The mommy dog was too afraid to leave her puppies and would just do her business wherever she felt fit.  So between puppy potty, markings and adult dog “accidents” I have had a very smelly house for the past little bit.  I have been so upset about it. 

Slowly, we have been selling the puppies.  Our 3rd puppy went to it’s new home on Wednesday of this week.  We have one left, and he is promised to a couple in Pittsburgh where we are heading soon.  Therefore, last night, my husband and I decided to set out to reclaim our house.  We moved furniture, vacuumed, got the carpet cleaner out, cleaned rooms, did laundry, and today we will put the finishing touches on the house by moving the furniture back, finishing the carpets and laundry and bleaching the kitchen where the dogs have been living. 

Have you ever thought that you could control your waste?  Control your little sin so that it wouldn’t stink up your entire life?  It was easy to clean up here and there every once in a while.  It wasn’t hard and the sin was so indulgent.  Slowly though, the sin started to take over your life.  You were finding yourself cleaning up the accidents more than you were finding yourself taking time to live life.  Before someone would come, I would run around and tidy up what I could, spray my house with air freshener.  I wanted my house to appear clean, but that meant that I had to hide a lot of the nasty that was gong on.  Sin can start out small and harmless, but grow into something that takes over your life.  No mater now we try to hide it, it is still there and will continue to be there until we decided to “take our house back!”

Now don’t get me wrong.  I love the puppies and I am not equating puppies to sin.  I am simply saying that something that can seem so harmless and wrong can take over.  Our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit. 

1 Corinthians 6:19 “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?  You are not your own.”

We are where the Spirit lives.  Do you want the Spirit to be grossed out in our lives?  Do we want Him to be disgusted when He walks around His home?  Do you want him to smell the sin in your life?  See the stains from sin?  Or do you want to give the Spirit something to be proud of?  Something He is proud to say, “yes, this is my home and I am proud of it.” 

Food for thought: Usually, when you start cleaning one room, the others start showing their dirt.  We notice things that we might not have seen as dirty before.  We need to evaluate our lives and find out where the stench is coming from and ensure that the Holy Spirit is happy with the Home we are providing for Him. 

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