Have a Clean House & a Clean Heart

Clean House...if your stress level rises at the sound of these words...you are NOT alone!  Even thinking about all that needs to be done is so overwhelming sometimes.  Have you ever found yourself doing everything else in the world but cleaning the house?  Oh yeah!  If this is not you, and cleaning comes easy as pie to you, please spread your joy and alleviate stress for the rest of us.  You could come clean our houses maybe, I'm just saying.

My mom kept our house immaculate when I was growing up.  She'd put on a "sweat band" and get to work.  We called her Mombo.  She had a bin full of cleaning products and scrubbers that she carried room to room.  She said meanwhile I went room to room making mess after mess.  I'm getting my payback for that as my son does the same thing.  Anyone else?  Oh probably not...your kids are little angels, right?  I mean mine is.  Even while destroying the house I just look at him and marvel at how perfect he is.  God does the same thing with His kids, that's you and me.  We run around making mess after mess, and God watches all the while marveling at His creation.  How, you ask? We're not perfect.  We're full of sin.  Uh huh...and Jesus died on the cross to wash all our sins away.  We see our sin, but God sees us white as snow.  2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."  So though our own righteousness is as filthy rags, because of Jesus taking our sins upon Himself, we are now the righteousness of God.  

If you haven't given your life to Christ yet, go ahead.  Tell God that you want to be His daughter and He will wash away all your sins and give you a clean heart.  If you already live for Christ, you know it's a walk of daily recognizing His grace in your life.  To all the "Mombos" out there, please say a prayer for those of us mamas who feel overwhelmed by housework...that we may clean, clean, clean!...with a song in our heart all the while.

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