Today, when I returned from a meeting, I felt inspired to clean up my desk, something I haven’t done for well… maybe ever. I can remember living in NYC and my roommates had an ongoing bet about my desk and how long it could remain clean and organized. After marriage, my home desk and office desks have never been organized…generally a complete mess.
As I cleaned up my desk, I began to think about my messy desk and how my messy desk has hindered my walk with God, relationships with family, friends and work.
I prayed today from 1 Peter. I prayed that I will live out my life in reverent fear. I pray for healing of relationships hurt by my messy desk as under the mess on the desk were tasks not done well or all all – causing frustration to those I cared about most. I pray my clean desk will give people I care about new reasons to have confidence they can trust me knowing my business is in order.
“Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God. 22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.[b] 23 For you have been born again,not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”
Amen.
PS: I never answered my question. I know I can be close to God and have a messy desk. I’m sure some can but I can’t.
PPS: Please find below all of 1 Peter 1 13-25
1 Peter 1 13-25 (NIV)
Be Holy
13 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming. 14 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. 15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16 for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”[a]
17 Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. 18 For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. 20 He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. 21 Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.
22 Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.[b] 23 For you have been born again,not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.24 For,
“All people are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
25 but the word of the Lord endures forever.”[c]
And this is the word that was preached to you.
Getting Closer to Our God #GCTOGOD 
Reminds me of Benjamin Franklin:
Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
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This and the next, Order, I expected would allow me more time for attending to my project and my studies. Resolution, once because habitual, would keep me firm in my endeavors to obtain all the subsequent virtues;
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My scheme of Order gave me the most trouble; and I found that, tho’ it might be practicable where a man’s business was such as to leave him the disposition of his time, that of a journeyman printer, for instance, it was not possible to be exactly observed by a master, who must mix with the world, and often receive people of business at their own hours. Order, too, with regard to places for things, papers, etc., I found extremely difficult to acquire. I had not been early accustomed to it, and, having an exceeding good memory, I was not so sensible of the inconvenience attending want of method. This article, therefore, cost me so much painful attention, and my faults in it vexed me so much, and I made so little progress in amendment, and had such frequent relapses, that I was almost ready to give up the attempt, and content myself with a faulty character in that respect…