Cleaning Tools

Driving to the library one morning this week, I pulled up at traffic lights behind a tradesman's ute (utility) that had two upturned wheelbarrows in the tray at the back. Both were covered with a thick coating of dried cement. I found myself smiling as I recalled my father's often uttered words about always cleaning tools when you have finished using them (and putting them back where they belong).
Clearly the user of the wheelbarrows, who installed swimming pools for a living, wasn't going to be able to use those barrow much longer if he maintained his current practice of not cleaning them after each use. He would soon be unable to lift them due to the weight of encrusted cement.
I also smiled because it was a reminder to me of how important it is to keep relationships free of misunderstandings, grudges and bitterness. These left to build up can ruin a relationship.
The other reminder was the picture that the wheelbarrows presented to me of the danger of built up sin to the most important relationship of all, the one between a believer and God, it is so important to keep short accounts with God and not let sin build up to the point that one thinks God has moved away.
The Bible tells us that "if we confess our sins He (Jesus) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" Am I glad about that!

Those wheelbarrows were a timely reminder of lots of good thoughts...
Hope you are having a great weekend.
Simply Susan