dirt

dirt

So this week I started my new job, working 3rd shift at Lowes.

It’s not that bad of a gig. Basically my job consists of unloading two 52 foot trailers, and then stocking a small portion of that during the night, so the next morning you can pick which of the 54 grills that I unloaded you think looks the best.

The only drawback to this job is that when I go home I am filthy. I don’t know if you have ever handled any small amount of cardboard. But cardboard might be the nastiest thing known to man. Cardboard is like a filth magnet. So when you are handling oh say 2,000 cardboard boxes in a night, a lot of that filth ends up on you.

The way I look when I get home reminds me of the picture above – (zoolander)

But I never realized how much I loved showers, and more than that soap.

It’s crazy how I can just watch the layers of dirt wash off of my hands and arms.

It is amazing how dirty someone can get in just a few hours. I get so filthy that it’s hard to breath. The best part of the shower is getting out and blowing my nose and realizing how much dirt got caught in my nose.
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it is crazy how dirty a person can get.

Today I saw an ad for a new tv show called dirt . . . the premise of the show is about some media personality who goes around digging up dirt on people.

We all have our dirt.

We all have those things that we know were wrong, those things we are ashamed of. If someone was able to see our life uncensored as a movie, I’m positive that all of us would have scenes that we wouldn’t want anyone to see.

So there is a little bit of a problem . . . every day we come home dirty. We come home so filthy that you can see the layers of dirt on our lives. It’s in our hair, our eyes, our nose, our mouth. (it’s in our heart)

I know what it feels like to be filthy, and to desperately want to be clean.

Our lives need to be cleaned as much as our bodies do when they are dirty.

King David felt this need in the Psalms he wrote:
“Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”
we have this deep need created inside of us to be clean.

Sometimes we try to clean up our lives, by being good, and being nice, and trying really hard to do more good than bad.

The reality is that no matter how hard we try we can’t clean up our lives.

God is the only one who can help us clean our dirty lives. He is the one who can clean us up.

So maybe today you but down the proverbial “religious soap” and turn to God and let him wash your heart whiter than snow.

Keep fighting for your king
-devin

p.s “I think I got the black lung pop”