Why Such a Clean Room?

In Luke Norsworthy’s book, God over Good, he describes the curiosity of a new friend whose bedroom was, to use his own words, “immaculate.” At the time this seemed strange, but in hindsight, and with some wisdom, he recognized that the extremely neat and clean room was the friend’s only chance to control his surroundings.

Upon going to his house for the first time, I was shocked by his bedroom’s cleanliness. My parents made me clean my room, but they didn’t require me to have a closet that looked like an IKEA commercial like his. Every subsequent time I went to his…