One element that I do
struggle with is the soap. I have a
great big soap dispenser that holds a lot of soap, and when it does empty out
we have an even bigger bottle of soap to refill it with. The problem is that the big bottle is all the
way across the house.
What happens is I go to
wash my hands, see that the dispenser is almost out of soap, and then say to
myself “I need to refill the soap dispenser.”
And that is the end of it. I wash
and dry my hands and then go back to whatever it was I was doing before. Then a few hours later I need to wash my
hands again, and the process repeats itself.
Then it actually runs out of soap and I have to reach into the shower
for a nearby bar or body wash. This goes
on for about a week until I finally walk across my house, get the big bottle of
soap, and refill my dispenser.
Now this is silly, but
I bet you do things like this too. We
all do. Often our mentality is “out of
sight, out of mind.” Sometimes we hope
that someone else will do it for us, and so we push off the responsibility as
long as we possibly can. The thing is,
we don’t just do this with soap, we do this will a lot of the elements of our
lives. We do it with relationships with
friends or family. We do it with school
work. We do it with our future. We know there is something we should do or we
should say, but we ignore the problem and hope it goes away. It’s time to take the responsibility to do
the right things that we have been putting off or avoiding. Yes, we need God in the middle of those
things, but it’s a sin to ask God to do something that we are not willing to do
ourselves. So speak up, apologize, work
hard, and make things right. Or we will
live our whole lives looking for ways to avoid putting soap in the dispenser.
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