Clutter Free!

What is the why behind our clutter?  I did not learn how to deal with my stuff.  Lord, show me how to be or do.  I do not want to live that way.  Telling your children to clean the house if you are not in order is not fair.

• Clutter keeps me from God.  There are big things that get into our way – Sin.  Little sin is like clutter.   
• Clutter is selfish – it demands our allegiance.  We get too busy dealing with the clutter that we are never able to go up in life. 
• Clutter and stuff keeps us overwhelmed.  When someone comes over to put everything in a closet or another room, they have helped me. 
• Clutter costs us. It is like a car’s red engine light – we like that about our clutter.  We need to recognize our clutter.
• Clutter costs us space and time.  Time is taken buying, cleaning, and organizing stuff.  Clutter keeps our brain from processing information. 
• Clutter cries – “Buy, buy, buy!” In the future, it distracts our space and money.  
• Clutter lies to us.  The lies clutter told me: “I am not a good person.  I need this for comfort.  We are fun people.  We buy from crisis to crisis.” Clutter says I am lazy. It brings fear.  “I might need that someday.”

This fear is not of God. It is like we are saying, “God, You will not provide for me, so I will provide it myself.”  Guilt tells us, “I must hold on to what has been given to me.” Shame tells us, “I spent so much on it.” 

Lord, You can show me how to give it away.  Thank You, Lord, for stuff.    


Peace is the other side of clutter.  When I deal with my clutter, I deal with my life better.

“…let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,” Hebrews 12:1 
You pay the higher price on clutter.  Remove the clutter and make room for the best things in your life.  God has a plan for us in this world.  Freeing from their clutter would change so they are free to change their world.  What does God want us to do in life for Him?

Jesus is putting a plan in front of you.  Remove the excess – clutter free!  I believe in miracles, because I believe in You! You will encourage and give me the desire to declutter my home.  Father, Let me encounter each moment of today with a ready, “Thank You” on my lips.

​Your Servant Forever, Carol