The Man Drawer. Do you have one?

In our kitchen we have one drawer that is labeled as the Man Drawer. To me, this drawer is the most handy part of the kitchen. I utilize this drawer to store basic tools needed around the house (tape measure, allen wrench set, screwdrivers). This drawer keeps me from having to rummage through the garage just to find a screw or wire pliers. If you don't have a Man Drawer you need to apply for one today!

Needing to mend a broken toy for my daughter, I opened the Man Drawer to grab a pair of pliers. It had been some time since needing to use this drawer and to my surprise all I could see was junk! Junk everywhere! There were old batteries, bent paperclips, crumbled-up paper, broken crayons, scattered thumbtacks, and several items that I was unsure of their origin. What had happened to my neat and organized Man Drawer?! Two words: WO-man. I fussed, grumbled, and declared the blame while digging for my pliers.  Almost instantly, the Lord reveled the true source of the problem.

The truths of the matter are this:
1. It was a Man Drawer and not a Woman Drawer. Therefore, I am responsible for the way this drawer is kept or not kept. That was the agreement when I acquired this drawer. This is also true with a man's family. The Bible makes evident that God will hold the man of the family accountable for the order and organization of that family. This was the agreement when you acquired your family.
2. It had been too long since the Man Drawer had been opened. If I would have regularly kept check on this drawer I would have been able to address the issue when it had little junk. Now it gathered much junk. Dad, when was the last time you opened up your family and evaluated its condition, its order, its structure? We men as the head of the home, should always keep our ears on the spiritual tracks of our family before it's too late!
3. It took much time and pain to clean up the junk. I couldn't stand to see my Man Drawer in this condition, so I began to tediously clean out the drawer. As I previously wrote, there were thumbtacks dumped all throughout the drawer. Every time I would try to remove an item a tack would prick my finger. The same needs to be a warning to the way you lead your family. Cleaning out the junk in your family's life will be painful and very time consuming if you wait until it gets too full of trash.

Men, I pray we will open and look inside the lives of our families and start throwing out the junk before it piles too high!