"You've got...laundry?!" How God used dirty laundry to lead me to the cross :)

My dirty laundry has been, literally mocking me.

Seriously, it just sits there like, "Look at me! I'm proof that you can't do it all, ha!". Oh, I know what you're thinking. "Laundry can't talk!" Well, mine can. And honestly? It's actually a little condescending. And rude. I mean I can be having a perfectly "carefree" day and then-BAM, there's that laundry! It's my secret shame.

:^) All joking aside: What if all that dirty laundry were really like an email? Not just any email, but an urgent message from my Lord-telling me I'm too distracted or too busy. And that these things left undone are a sign! A sign that I've been neglecting something very important. Maybe that's really what's bothering me. Maybe my laundry isn't as condescending as I thought! Maybe it's just my Lord drawing my attention to something I've missed. And, then it hit me... and I was floored!

You see, 1 week from tomorrow we will celebrate Good Friday, and I haven't even given it thought. The single greatest sacrifice known to man and I have barely had time to remember. And I am truly ashamed. My prayer today is this: That I would remember. And that as I remember my heart would be filled with gratitude. I will leave you with words from the Prophet Isaiah about our Lord, Jesus. May I never forget the cross and the debt that was paid on my behalf.

Isaiah 53

Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the LORD makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.
After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

 Loving and praying for you all today!