Sometimes I’m given a gift, and  I receive the gift with gratitude.  When I accept the gift, I think of all the ways that I could use the gift, because I generally like it.  Then it has to find a place to live…usually a drawer or a closet.  I always have great intentions of using the gift, but somehow life tends to busy me, and I can tend to forget about it.  After a while, I start to feel a bit cluttered, and decide to clean house.  I become motivated to organize, throw away, and basically get a new grip on my stuff.  I then begin the process of acquiring more things, some of which are gifts, and some are things that I pick up myself.  I sometimes find that I spend more time keeping things organized and in their place rather than actually taking time to use/enjoy them.

I find this to be true about spiritual things as well.  I am finding myself in a season where the Lord is challenging me to clean out my closets and drawers.  I tend to spend more time looking at my well organized spiritual closet, rather than taking the truths out and enjoying them.  As a Christian, over the years God has given me many spiritual truths.  In the moment, I receive it with gratitude and eagerness to to accept it as truth.  I believe it, and even recognize that it’s true for me.  Then I tuck it away in a place that I’m sure to remember, and before I know it, I’ve forgotten it.  Now if reminded, I can say, “yeah that’s true, I have that somewhere”.

Why don’t I bring it out more? Why don’t I know exactly where it is? Why can’t I embrace the truth so that it stays with me and becomes a part of me, instead of just a part of my spiritual closet?

So this is what the Lord is challenging me with right now….learning to embrace the truth, instead of just accepting it.  I know I’m a child of God, but now He is asking me to embrace my inheritance as one.