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Every house in the world inevitably has a junk drawer. Whether your junk drawer is full of old gas station receipts from 2012, pens, paper, ketchup packets, and maybe even a New Testament, we all have a junk drawer of some kind.
The idea of a junk drawer seems a little odd until you realize that we do the same thing with our lives. As we live our lives, we end up with things that we don’t know what to do with. Instead of ridding ourselves of the things that have no place in our lives, we allow them to take up so much space that eventually we just throw them wherever we can—and we tend to place them out of sight, so that we can forget that they are there.
Over time, the junk drawer becomes fuller and fuller, until one day you realize that can’t actually close the drawer anymore. You start to pull stuff out, wondering why you chose to keep all of it in the first place. Piece by piece, the messes of your past begin to reemerge. In that moment, you realize that while you may have cleaned out the drawer, you are now left with a mess that you have to sort out.
The way that you categorize your life experiences matters. While something might seem harmless today, it might prove to be catastrophic tomorrow. Everyone loves throwing stuff in their junk drawer until they need to go searching through it. Throw away any thoughts that don’t deserve a place in your mind before you ever give them the chance to take hold. God has given you the authority to get rid of your junk drawer. You just have to trust in Him.
Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up.
Proverbs 12:25 NLT
So helpful.