Is your drain basket clogged?
I got to thinking about how much we are like the drain basket in a sink. Ever look down in that kitchen sink and find the drain basket full of gunk?
Bits and pieces of the day’s food stuck in the holes of the strainer.
If left rotting there very long it begins to stink, clogging the holes in the drain basket, and stopping up the sink not allowing the water to flow through.
You can dump cleanser in the sink but unless you actually pick the rotting bits out, the cleanser won’t do any good. It may smell better but only for a few moments, nothing lasting.
Our lives are very much like a drain basket. Our life can get clogged with lots of worldly attitudes and values instead of Biblical values.
We become distracted by the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things.
They clog our lives so that God’s love and light is prevented from flowing through us to those around us. Things we have allowed to accumulate in our lives so often sidetrack us from our God given purpose.
Our lives are supposed to be a sweet savor unto the Lord (2 Cor. 2:15) but when our drain basket is clogged with all this other junk… it is more of a stench than a sweet savor.
Ephesians 5:26&27 …even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
God’s Word is to cleanse us. We must keep the gunk out of our basket and keep it clean with the washing of the water of the Word of God.
We must consciously keep our lives free of these things or they will build up and clog our lives so that we have very little space left for God to flow through us.
We have to put effort into this.
My sink won’t be clean unless I physically clean it up myself, picking the chunks of waste out of the holes.
The Word of God is like the soap that disinfects the drain basket.
However, I have to cooperate with it and remove that which clogs the holes for God’s soap to really disinfect the basket, making way for living water to flow through us.
If those particles of sin aren’t repented of, God’s love and the light of Christ are hindered from pouring through to those around us.
How is your drain basket today?
