Heaped

Psalm 119:70 “Their hearts are callous and unfeeling, but I delight in your law.”

When I was about 12, my older cousin, my two sisters, and I built an igloo out of snow.  It took us four days but it turned out really neat.  Two people could fit in it at once.  If we tried to get inside too early, it would make it collapse.  We froze working so many hours in the snow.  Once it was finished, we took turns getting inside of it.  Because of all the packed snow, it was really warm and cozy inside.  It sure wasn’t warm and cozy building it.  It makes me realize how we can take junk in our lives and keep building on it.  One thing happens and instead of stopping it there, we let it lead to one thing after another.  Before we know it, we’re packed in with junk and instead of it being uncomfortable anymore, its grown cozy.  If we start to take it off, we get cold and uncomfortable so we just leave it on.  Learning to let our layers be peeled back is uncomfortable.  The junk we started loading on was uncomfortable at first as well.  If we allow it to be uncomfortable for a while, just like the junk, it will soon be comfortable again.  Don’t become comfortable with the wrong things.   

Ephesians 4:17-19 “And so I insist—and God backs me up on this—that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They've refused for so long to deal with God that they've lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. They can't think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.”