The Ultimate Trash Collector

During my youth group's latest late night worship, our youth pastor said that he felt that God was saying that He wanted to come around and collect our trash.  So during the song, we thought/prayed about our "trash" and symbolically held out our hands full of our trash for Jesus to come around and pick up.  God showed me a more in-depth metaphor that came out of that and it became this poem.


Don't be a hoarder
of all the things that crush you,
That Satan makes you think
that you need,
That if you give it up,
you will be without
empty
wanting.
It's ok to put out your trash.
It isn't natural to keep it,
letting it pile up.
Set it out willingly
Scour every nook and cranny
until every last piece of trash
no longer resides with you.
Put it out for Christ the trash-man
to collect.
He is a thorough trash man,
never late,
never leaving a trace
of mess behind.
And your trash does not go into a landfill -
It disappears FOREVER.
Remember that.
Do not live as though
you still believe your trash
is still out there somewhere.
It is not.
It is gone.
Forever.
This trash man not only
cleans up your mess for good,
but He does not leave
you empty or wanting.
You do not have to pay for His service...
He already did.
In face, He pays you -
With a rising hope.
But first you have to part with your trash.

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He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. - Micah 7:19

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.  As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. - Psalm 103:11-12