Sometimes when I think I’m making fantastic spiritual progress, I’ll run headlong into a bad thought, motive, or attitude that I thought I’d graduated from a long time ago.
At the risk of being overly vulnerable (there is such a thing), I want to let you in on some sins that surface in my heart sometimes that make my spirit go yuck.
And I’ll categorize them, for extra fun.  Enjoy.

-When my wife asks me to do something simple to serve her and my silent instinct is: I’m too important/busy/tired/whatever to do that.
I’ll call this selfish yuck.

-When a pastor who doesn’t like me experiences the blessing of God, and I’m sort of sad to hear of his success. I can usually muscle my way through this by forcing myself to see it from a Kingdom perspective.
Still, I want my initial inclination to be: praise God!
Not: yeah, but…
This is jealous/competitive yuck.

-When I feel sorry for myself because of a minor inconvenience like a crying child at 6:30 AM, a long wait at a restaurant, or a stressful ministry decision.
Seems fitting to label this ungrateful yuck.
Because truth be told, some people would kill for the blessings that I perceive as inconvenience-a healthy child to wake you up with his crying, money to go out to a restaurant where you would have to wait, a fruitful ministry that would require stressful decisions.

Just wanted you to know today that if you constantly discover crud building up in your soul, you’re not alone.  Be encouraged.  Jesus makes you clean.