The pantry at my house is exceedingly neat and tidy. This is mostly due to the consistent effort of my super-organized wife. Did I mention she’s also beautiful?🥰(Nancy helps edit all my posts) Hello, sweetheart!😍 Don’t delete this, ok?
Anyway, even though I try (kinda sorta), things don’t always get back where they belong—after I take them out of the cupboard.
Actual transcript:
Nancy: (in the pantry) “The crackers are pushed to the back of the shelf! Why are the cookies down here?” (Sound of boxes moving)
Me: (thoughtfully) “Uh….”
So, last night I decided to play a little prank. I put the boxes on most of one shelf in alphabetical order. How long would it take her to notice?
I waited and waited. Ok, it was about 30 minutes. “I reorganized the pantry when you were on the phone with your brother,” I say nonchalantly.
“You what!?” Uh oh, she doesn’t sound happy.😬 I hear footsteps, and the creak of pantry doors opening.
“Very cute,” she says. “But I like to keep the cookies and crackers together and you have them separated. Plus, the Cheese-Its are half open and the Ritz crackers are upside down.”
I didn’t bother confessing that I was the guy, in a fit of hunger, who opened the wrong end of the Ritz box. 😊🙃
Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
2 Corinthians 7:1 (NIV)
In the pursuit of humor, I’ve made light of my sloppiness in the pantry, and the subsequent joke I played on my wife. But, with God, holiness is no laughing matter.
The writer of Hebrews puts it this way:
Without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14b (NIV)
Jerry Bridges, in his classic book The Pursuit of Holiness, points out that holiness is not an accessory to God—like a belt that matches His shoes—it is the totality of who He is.
Paul tells us, in Ephesians, what our practical response should be:
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists of all goodness, righteousness, and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.
Ephesians 5:8-10 (NIV)
Kind reader, this is a lengthy post (for me), but what I’m trying to say is this: If we belong to God, there should be reasons to believe it’s true.
Is my heart’s pantry organized His way?
Thank you for reading. 🙏❤️ prayers and love.
Davids Daily Dose 
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