Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Soap

At our house I have my own bathroom.  Now, this bathroom is about the size of a postage stamp, has no A/C, and usually doesn’t smell very good, but it is mine.  The problem with that is since it’s my bathroom I am responsible for its upkeep.  There are no words that I feel comfortable typing here to describe to you what that might mean, so I will allow you to use your imagination.

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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