On Hand Sanitizer

I like to often post things in my day that remind me of what to do, and what not to do. lessons learned, things i see that remind me of the God i serve. today i saw just that. i had just sneezed into my hand, which is what we're supposed to do, as opposed to blowing the snot germs on others we just blow them on our own hands infecting ourselves with nasty snot germs.

so this happened to me today. i then got some hand sanitizer that was so conveniently sitting next to me. i squirted a little bit on my hand and i was germ free. now i think there is an obvious example of how this relates to God. so many times in my life, and possible all christians..the data is not in yet, however so many times i blow germs all over myself...i make a terrible pit of my life...i dirty myself up...i allow my mind to be self focused...i dont seek anything other than my good. and when i feel dirty, i put a little bit of the scripture in my life, or a little bit of the Lord in my life and...TA DA! all clean. germ free. dirt free. ugly is now made beautiful. stains are now cleansed.

and this has been my idea on christianity, that when things go wrong we can just put a little hand sanitizer(so to speak) on our lives and all of a sudden we get this title of cleansed. and we actually feel better about ourselves. while hand sanitizer does clean your hands...or i guess whatever you apply it to.(as weird as that is, i however do not know the fettishes of whoever may read this, to each his own) but yes it does clean the germs, but what about the ones under the fingernail? it's just as apart of the hand...and the sanitizer falls very short of it's job of cleansing the whole hand. and what about the germs floating underneath the surface?

see while hand sanitizer cleans the outside, the outter shell, what about the inner? how bout the parts of our soul that we keep just deeply deeply hidden? so while we use the word of God to give us that quick fix, or maybe a short prayer so we feel a little better about ourselves during the week, maybe we might even go to a church service and donate that hour of our week to the Lord, then we can walk out still dirty; however appearing clean. we can even give some of our money to the poor, and walk away feeling clean.

ahhh the madness never ends. the word, and the Lord are not used to merely clean the outside debre of germs out of our lives, but rather to get underneath the fingernails where the infection lives, where the real dirt dwells, and sin is just increasingly more and more difficult to hide when we let the word of the Lord effect us like this. and not a mere heart sanitization where things are rubbed off, or waxed out...but not erased. not cleansed.

hand sanitizer is great for cleaning the snot of our our hands, and even some tiny germs, but how terrible is it when we use it like we use our bible, our God, our money, our family, our friends, our selfish desires. please dont get me wrong, i live sold out to myself much like everyone else. but please Lord im begging that i might die to myself.

so heres to hand sanitizer and the long blog it produced.