Well it's half-way through the day...Thursday already!! The weeks are just flying by!! Having quit smoking, there are more hours in the day, for me. Or so it seems.....But with the days getting shorter, it seems like I fight the clock no matter what I do!! I have been working in the kitchen today!! My kitchen! The heart of my home....Right now, I think that heart is clogged with all sorts of gunky mess....I look at the heart of my home and have to think that it might just reflect the heart of my soul....Full of gunky mess!! I don't like how that feels. I want my home to be a reflection of my heart and my heart to be a reflection of my Heavenly Father. Will people, who have not been saved, look at me and see a slob and then think that the God that I profess to love, is a slob too?? Will the reflection of my home cause people to think that my God is a God of chaos and disorder, because I am sloppy?? It's a real possibility!! How can I claim to follow my God of Wonder, when my house looks as it's been a major battle front of World War 3?? The Bible says, in Titus 2:5 To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Wow!! Arrows pointed straight at me....Spotlights falling on me....... I hardly ever work at home!! I make up excuses....I complain because no one else helps....I justify my laziness, with just about every excuse in the book!! I have never given it one thought, that the Word of God might be reviled(reviled means harshly criticized) because of my messy, unkempt house. But now that I really think on it....ponder it....It does!!It shows that I can only care for my needs, selfishly and not the needs of my family....It shows that I cannot follow the laws set forth for me, before the laws of feminism existed (I don't believe in feminism or equal rights, but that's a subject for a different day) It shows that I am rebellious to the will of God, because I KNOW what is expected of me, as a wife and carekeeper of my home and all who abide, within.....It shows my disharmony....my laziness, my slothfulness, my disobedience.....Suddenly, I am very ashamed!! I feel guilty for letting my disobedience rule me....and therein is where the struggle lies....God wants me to delight in Him....How can I do that, when I know I'm being blatantly disobedient?? God wants me to be overjoyed with happiness....How can I live that when I am surrounded by chaos and disharmony that I myself have created and perpetuated?? I MUST CLEAN MY HOUSE.....I MUST BE OBEDIENT TO MY HOLY FATHER.....I MUST NOT BE A MILLSTONE AROUND MY HUSBAND'S NECK. So today, I'm being obedient and faithfully cleaning my kitchen.....and going to the Word, I find Ezekiel 36:25 and 26...."Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your stubborn hearts and give you obedient hearts." Wow!! I serve an AWESOME God!! A God who loves me so much that He gives me scripture on the importance of cleaning my house!! Lemme tell you my friend, His eye is truly on the sparrow and I know He watches me.....
Blessings, now and always....
His Servant,
Lisa