Josh and I served in our church's nursery last month. While it can be kinda crazy with about nine or so babies, it's so nice to get to know the parents of these sweet littles. A couple of Sundays ago a mother comes in to nurse her 5 month old little girl. She's originally from North Carolina, so she has an accent I love to listen to. While she's in the nursery with us I ask how her week was. And the story begins...
During the day she takes care of not only her baby, but her two older boys as well...and her father-in-law's large black dog. She proceeds to tell us that they'd butchered their cows that week and the dog got into the blood and other "stuff." He came traipsing into her home with his bloody paws. Of course it didn't make her happy but she was able to clean it up, needless to say he was kicked out. Well, a little while later it happened again, except this time he proceeds to throw up what he'd eaten outside. Gross, huh?
That's not the end of the story.
She says that the smell is still lingering in their home, she's tried to clean it out of her carpet, to no avail. She decided they'd just have to get new carpet.
The next week, we see her again. I ask if she has new carpet. She looks at me and smiles a soft smile. "No," she says. They'd had a carpet cleaner come out a few times and the spot was lifting and the smell had gone away. She tells me that the Lord really worked on her heart that week and had shown her a few things. Patience, for one. And the other was that He had shown her that the carpet was like us. People.
We get dirty (sin) time and again. But He cleans us, time and again. We have spots, areas of our lives, our hearts, our minds that are always needing cleansed. And He's always there to wash us clean. Always there to forgive.
I loved it. Loved the lesson that was learned, not necessarily for her, but for me. I loved her honesty, her humble nature.
Isn't God so amazing? There's nothing we have done or can do that He can't clean.
He's the ultimate Spot Remover.
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