Happy Friday!

I have been really digging this daily devotional Bible study that I have been doing with one of my "Pauls" and with one of my "Timothy's". Today is especially awesome but first let me just share that its Friday! I am headed to Kyles old school - Harrisburg Elementary School - to have lunch with one of my 2nd grade kids. First time this year stepping foot in the school. It should be awesome seeing all the students that I know as well as the teachers that I have made lasting friendships with. Sad some of them will be moving to the new school next year so this snapshot in time today - will be one I will remember with the way it was when Kyle and so many of his peeps were there! That makes me smile...... and sad all at once.
Yesterday I was at Walmart and picked up a couple garden hoses because somewhere in the messy part of life I have lost my garden hose that I used out front. I specifically use that hose for washing the vehicles, something I don't do much anymore since I don't have time and well - its just a pain to move the hose from the back yard to the front yard. So now - I should be able to do this a little easier. My plan is to work with Kyle and give him the low down on keeping the vehicles clean and detailed - both inside and out. This brings me to my thoughts this morning. I am pretty odd with having a clean car - both inside and out. Nothing bugs me more than having a vehicle that is like a trash can on the inside. I do have some grown peeps that this is normal for them and thats ok ... its just not me. I like my trucks clean on the outside looking good and inside feeling good. Also clean windows ...and no TOE prints on the front windshield! This is very much like our walk with Christ. We may appear to have everything right and in order on the outside - its what everyone sees...but what about the inside? What about where your heart is today? IS there no encouraging nice words being spoken to others? Are you a slave to your schedule and there is just not a spare moment to stop and spend time or have a conversation with someone who could use a special word spoken into their lives? God is interested on our inside and like a car for me ... being clean on the inside makes everything FEEL just better.
I want to share Romans 12 this morning.
Place Your Life Before God
1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Loved ones pay close attention where you heart is today. Not so much worry about your outside appearance because that is pleasing people. Show them what is on the inside and that alone will make your outside appearance that much better. Like the cars in your driveway - are they clean on the outside, wheels shined and a spring coat of wax and just trashed on the inside? It might be time to clean up those Wendy's wrappers, Starbucks cups, straws and used napkins and give it a good cleaning. Your life may need a good cleaning right now ... God cares about your inside.

Happy cleaning and happy Friday loved ones,
Lonnie~