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| Photo: Toni Campbell (see note below) |
Is your Cross ever hidden by the "full" of your life? Has the comfort, the plenty, the ease of a life with warmth and food and the general necessities met taken up all your shelf space... Yet still you find your heart barren, longing for more?
You look, but see nothing. You go through a closet crammed with clothes and shoes and jewelry and purses, yet proclaim you have nothing to wear. You stack your shelves (and credit card debt) sky high with your instantaneous "I'll feel better once I have this because I really need it" self-centric pleasures. But no sooner is it out of the designer bag than you weary of it (like a two-week old Christmas toy long forgotten) and are on to the next magic distraction that will momentarily fill your longing but soon gather dust on your heavy-laden "self shelf"
It is the season to strip away all that hinders you from seeing, hearing, and giving first place to The One Who was nailed to the Cross... Sacrificing all for You.
Today, empty your self shelf. Unburden yourself, unchain yourself from whatever needs to go. For it is only when we empty our shelves of self that we will clearly come face-to-face with the Cross... and our Savior... THE ONE AND ONLY fulfillment of every need now and forevermore.
Amen.
Photo Credit: My friend Toni Campbell -- she wrote of this photo: "I asked a volunteer to take a picture of our empty shelves in The Pantry to share online with our request for food donations. Look at the pipes above the shelf.."
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Love how you took this picture and created such a profound post. I pray that my self shelf is never so full that I lose sight of the cross :)
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