CLEANING TIP

Do you like cleaning the bathroom?

If I had the choice between arm wrestling a T-Rex and cleaning the bathroom, it might be a toss-up. It looks relatively easy, but it seems to be a losing battle!

When we moved, our new house had a clear glass shower stall that looked very pretty, but the first thing that went through my mind was how I would keep it looking that way. I had used the daily shower cleaners before, and they are effective but only with consistent use, and they are expensive.

While digging on the net, I found a few homemade daily shower cleaner recipes and read the reviews. The recipe I share here works very well and costs pennies to make. I modified it for more sanitizing power. Even if you forget to use it after every time you shower, a modest effort is effective, and keeping it handy in the shower helps with remembering to do it.

DAILY SHOWER CLEANER

1/2 cup peroxide

1/2 cup minimum 91% rubbing alcohol

1 tsp blue Dawn dishwashing liquid

1 Tbsp Dishwasher Rinse Aid

2 cups water or enough to fill bottle.

Mix, and fill your spray bottle.

It’s a great way to use all the peroxide and rubbing alcohol you bought in 2020! The recipe calls for the original formula Blue Dawn because the newer formulations aren’t as effective. I purchased a small bottle for this recipe and also to use as a laundry grease spot remover. One bottle of this recipe lasts our household about six weeks and is so cheap to make. You can also use the daily shower cleaner less often on the tub and sinks.

So often, I’m content to have my house look surface clean rather than make an effort to do a thorough house cleaning. If I look at my life with introspection, that theme can become a common thread if I’m not careful.

Nothing authentically good and precious comes without hard work, perseverance, and commitment to perform consistent maintenance.

As Christians, our attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs are all part of our spiritual house. Jesus is our foundation. We are responsible for the upkeep of our home because, collectively, we form a village that has no boundaries in the Lord.

By wisdom a house is built, and by wisdom it is established.

Proverbs 24:3

How do we deep clean and maintain our spiritual house? With due diligence, we can nurture our spiritual home with prayer, fellowship with other believers, and reading the Word of God in the Bible. The Holy Spirit is the daily cleaner of our spiritual house.

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. 2 Corinthians 3:18

Without the Lord, mold, mildew, soap scum, and hard water deposits are the least of our troubles. There is freedom in His name. He helps us. Don’t try to clean your spiritual house on your own!

Here are some steps to take if you would like to know the full joy of being a Jesus Follower:

Ask to be filled with the Holy Spirit- Pray. Be direct in faith and humility.

“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for [a]bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11:9-13

Don’t quench the Spirit-Be willing to plow through embarrassment or uncertainty.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. Galatians 5:17

Walk in the Spirit-Be thankful, reverant, and wise.

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Ephesians 5:15-21

Be obedient to the Spirit’s Calling-Grow spiritually by doing His will

6 And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. 7 And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them. Acts 16:6-7

You can find His will in His Word, the Bible. Doing His will sometimes requires NOT doing what we want to do. The Holy Spirit helps us discern between GO and NO.

I have filled him with the Spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship, Exodus 31:3

Be cleansed and transformed as you continue on the journey to holiness through the power of the Holy Spirit, the friendship and love of Jesus, and the guidance and provision of the sovereign Heavenly Father.

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