Hmmmm, Dirty Windows. Hate em, but I hate cleaning them too. LOL Quite the conundrum. But the windows I speak of here are the windows of the heart the way we see things. And the cleaner her is gratitude. This morning as I was in my prayer time, the Lord sent a "mind picture" to me (not like a vision or anything that grand, just an idea in my mind that brings an image into my thoughts).
Through the readings I was doing this morning I found that complaining and faultfinding is like looking into my life and world through a grimy dirty window. All is dark, unclear, unclean. Nothing looks good or pleasing. But gratitude, gratitude expressed, is the cloth for wiping away that dirt. More and more beauty becomes visible, the beauty that is unseen with darkened eyes, like darkened glass. The more I express my thanks, the more clearly I see, the more light floods my heart and my life. Gratitude cleans up my life!! LOL Or at least the way I see it!!
Matthew 6:22-23
Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!
It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul....Is gratitude or bitterness directing the way I see things, what I see life through. If I clean off those windows with praise and thanksgiving, God's light floods my whole being. But continue to leave the dirt (things like anger, unbelief, ingratitude...) on my windows, and it just gets darker and darker, until no light penetrates.
Lord, let your praises be on my lips, thanksgiving flow from my heart like a rushing river. I want to see my world as You do. Thank You, as always for Your teaching and loving patience.
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