Wednesday is Trash Day
- Tina Punneo
- Mar 25, 2019
- 2 min read
Every Wednesday my husband dutifully gathers the trash around our house, takes it to the big, blue trash bin outside and rolls it to the curb to be picked up by the garbage collectors and they take it away to never be seen of again.
Wednesday is trash day. It's a good day to get rid of all of our garbage.
It makes me wish there was a day of the week that I could collect all of my doubts, fears, sins, insecurities, worries, concerns, and anxieties and throw them out, like Wednesday's garbage. I just want to gather them all up and throw them away. Kick them to the curb.
Wait, there is. The thing is, there isn't just a day. There is, actually, every minute of every day that I have an opportunity to do this, and it's called prayer. We can take all of those doubts, fears, sins, insecurities, worries, concerns and anxieties and throw them out to God. We can gather them all and tie them up in one of those fancy scented trash bags and say, 'here God take this away, I don't want it anymore.' In fact, he asks us to this this in His word.
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippines 4:6
And we can have confidence in doing this. "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us." 1 John 5:14
So, don't just take out your trash on Wednesday, or whatever your trash day is. Take your cares and concerns to God any time of the week or anytime of the day.
Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. 1 Chronicles 16:11
Even better than that, he can cleanse us and clean us from all of that garbage of sin that we carry around, if we take it to Him. "But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness." 1 John 1:9
A lot of us, self included, tend to put this trash in the recycle bin, instead of the permanent trash to be deleted, burned and forgotten. We recycle those same doubts, those same sins, fears, and insecurities. God asks us to give it all over to him and the sacrifice of his son will permanently wash us of all of those old, filthy sins. "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace." Ephesians 1:7
So, if you'll excuse me, I have some trash to take out today, but on Wednesday, I'll leave the literal taking out of the trash to my husband.
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