Spit Shine

I think of a TON of blog posts to type up.  Most are too short and if I have more than one idea in the same thought, I seem to be unable to connect the two. So, I've decided to keep it short. Here goes it.

Normally, I clean my wedding and engagement ring every Sunday morning before church.  No particular reason, other than it's easy for me to remember to clean it if it's on a schedule.  Today, I didn't because I was rushing around, which doesn't happen often.  On my way out the door, I decided I would give it a spit shine.  Well, I looked at the ring afterwards and it wasn't as shiny as it usually is after dipping it completely in cleaner and scrubbing it down.  That's when it hit me.  That's how we want all of our life to work.  Little work and great results.  My ring will not sparkle and shine unless I soak it and scrub all of the cracks and underneath the setting.  Our lives will not shine unless we allow God to get all up in our in lives and remove all the dirt and grime that just loves to settle in all the small places of our being.  It's not easy giving it all over to Him, it's not easy to truly trust, to truly allow God to REPLACE all the yuck with who is wants us to be, a mirror image of Him.  My prayer is that I wouldn't just pretty up the surface of who I am, but that I would also clean out the places that I cannot see that prevent God from shining all throughout my life.