Hair Dryer Lint and Sin

This morning I was drying my hair in typical pastor fashion when all of a sudden my hair dryer started blowing cool air and then stopped working all together. You must understand the pastor's obsession with his hair to fully appreciate this. There is only a small window of oppotunity that gives the pastor that optimum in Bible-preaching preacher look. I was nearly panicked. After shaking the device and fooling with the plug, the hot wind machine fired up and I acheived that silky fresh look I desired.

Once the commotion had settled, I noticed that the hair dryer had a filter on the back of it designed to catch debris before it entered into the air intake. It was full of lint. I thought it wise after my battle with the huffy dryer to clear that filter of its debris. Let me just tell you, that stuff was gross and hard to get out. It took me nearly 20 minutes to clean out my hair dryer. I found long hair (doubtless, from my wife), curly hair (from my son) short hair (from any number of culprits) and lint. What is lint? All of these things individually and separately congregated in that filter and slowed the air flow to the point of dryer malfunction. And then it hit me!

Hair dryer lint is just like sin. It's gross. It comes in different shapes and sizes and from different sources. It takes a long time to get it out if it ever gets in. And, it will cause you to malfunction if you don't deal with it. The filter on my hair dryer is what saved it from total ruin. I simply removed the filter, cleaned it and replaced it and my hair dryer was off and running! Like that filter, Christian people need to place filters in their lives - an early detection service, if you will. We need to study and learn God's Word so that we know what we're looking for and how to deal with it once we find it. We need to participate in church and get to know some Christian people who can help us in our battle against sin. We need to give ourselves to purity and holiness by taking time periodically to clean our filters. If we do anything less than that, then we miss our opportunity for optimum Christlikeness. Go clean your filter before you blowup your dryer!