Bunny-Friendly?

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Do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed! Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God. Carry the light-giving Message into the night so I’ll have good cause to be proud of you on the day that Christ returns. You’ll be living proof that I didn’t go to all this work for nothing. (Philippians 2:14-16)

Do everything readily - just how well are we doing on that one today? I know that I drag my feet when it comes to things around the house that really could use my attention, like the high-low dusting. As long as the surfaces look reasonably 'clean', I can let it go until the dust bunnies start creeping out as you walk past their hiding places! My BFF quips that we are 'dust bunny friendly', but every now and again, we have to eliminate the 'herd' of bunnies, but somehow our inattentiveness to getting all of them allows them to rebreed! Sin is kind of like dust bunnies - it 'rebreeds' when we aren't willing to take the necessary steps to 'attentively' remove all of it!

Good living is only accomplished when we allow the 'clean up' of our lives to occur without hesitation or 'squabbling' with God about it. I know I am not the only one that drags their feet or squabbles a bit too much with him over whatever step of obedience he is seeking. Being honest with ourselves about our reluctance may actually be the first step toward us moving into full obedience. While God does want us to focus on not allowing silly quarrels and bickering with each other to get us off-course in our walk with him or bring any disgrace to him by our actions toward others, he wants that willingness to no longer quarrel with him to come first. We may call it 'reasoning' with God, refusing to see it as 'bickering' or 'second-guessing' his desires for us, but to be perfectly honest here, it is just selfish rebellion that holds us back and allows so many of those 'sin-bunnies' to rebreed!

The moment we stop quarreling with God, stop trying to find ways to just 'hit the surface dirt' in our lives, the more we will become 'displeased' with the 'bunnies' that lie lurking within the crevices of our lives. That is when true 'clean-up' begins to happen. None of us wants to be 'sin-bunny' friendly, do we? Just askin...

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