Day 11 - 40 Bags in 40 Days - Ultimate Pantry Organization - Free Printable

My hope is that by this time in our challenge you have more than 11 bags of clutter to donate to charity. I know I had at least that many after cleaning out my closet, Dave's closet, and our linen closet. I don't have children's closets to clean, and I know that there is a treasure trove of things that most parents can get rid of. This week, I've decided to move onto the kitchen and pantry. I've even got a handy dandy checklist to organize your pantry to get you started.

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40 Bags in 40 Days Daily Devotion from Ashes to Fire

1 Corinthians 4:10-12New International Version (NIV)

10 We are fools for Christ, but you are so wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, we are dishonored! 11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

Paul founded the church in Corinth. The Corinthians had been living much like the world lives today in hedonism and debauchery. If it feels good - do it and self-gratification. When Paul founded the church, he preached to them "the unsearchable riches of Christ, nurtured them in their weakness and immaturity as Christians, and suffered and toiled among them, even working in order to eat bread; and now, at the first visible signs of material prosperity among them, they openly despised their teacher, heaped unto themselves popular, shallow leaders after their own lusts, and were indulging the most amazing boastfulness and conceit." (Coffman's Commentary).

Paul wrote this letter to show them how awful they had become. How their morals had been stripped away.

Isn't that how it is with us? I'm always talking about my "first world problems". This scripture reinforces that our problems really aren't problems at all. They are issues of self and wanting what we want when we want it. It's easy to get distracted with life, but we need to take time, stop, and remember what is really important. Remember that we don't need every little thing with every little bell and whistle on it.

Sometimes when we "have" we forget to be dependent on Christ. We forget that without Him we are nothing. So, this week as we clean out our ample pantries and kitchens, let's take the time to remember what is really important in life. We are more than what we have in our cabinets, in our homes, and in our jobs.

Fools ... means "fools in the eyes of the world."