Rumbled and Tumbled

It was out of the corner of my eye that I saw him,

that familiar shadowy eight-legged menace scuttling

across the floor. ‘Oh no, you won’t!’ I told him in panic.

Quick as a flash I grabbed a tumbler. I had to act

double quick if I was to intercept this unsettling creature before it scuttled away from my sight and hid menacingly in a corner.

I lunged urgently towards the unwelcome, uninvited guest with my tumbler. Hey presto!  I captured him inside the upturned glass and breathed a sigh of relief.

Knowing that he had no means of escape entombed under the glass tumbler, and safe from his terrors, I left him behind the door and went back to my tasks. The two inches of creepy-crawliness was constrained but not evicted, the threat was subdued temporarily. I planned to evict him later.

Sometimes we similarly entertain for too long, sins, grudges or attitudes that we should be evicting for ever. God warned Cain:

Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you.  But you must subdue it and be its master.  Gen 4:7

Are we harbouring things in the corridors of our hearts, constraining them but not evicting them? Temptations, attitudes, uncontrollable temper, misdeeds, addictions, habits, grudges or unforgiveness?                                                         What crouches at your door today? Is there an animal in you that needs to be kept at bay? Is God urging you to master it?   There is no better time than today to be rid. Why wait?      

With Love, Rev Gill x          

 Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts Heb 3:15