Hi all.
Today I received a spiritual lesson. here's what happened.
I woke up and my wife asked me if I would go to Her sister's place and do some painting.
I said yes, so we had breakfast, jumped in the car and headed out there.
My sister in law is staying with Her mother (my mother in law) so we had to go there first.
Now usually I hate going to my mother in law's place. I usually hate going there but today it wasn't to bad.
We then head to my sister law's place to see what needed to be done. it was about midday, so I said I would rather come down early tomorrow morning and start the painting. so far so good, I didn't suspect a thing.
We went back to my mother in law's briefly before heading home.
Before I go any further I'll have to tell you about my mother and sister in law.
I'm not a big fan of either my mother or my sister in law. I consider them both to be bad hypocrites! My mother in law is always talking the christian talk but not walking the christian walk. She has six kids, none of which she has ever looked after properly, in fact, She doesn't have a clue, and when it comes to kids not getting looked after properly, I get very angry!
My sister in law is super rebellious and does some things that would make anyone pull their hair out in frustration and disbelief! having said that, that doesn't give me any right to judge, but then again if I could help it just because I know it's not right, I'd have mastered sin right?
So anyway this is what happened when I got home.
I opened the car door and there was a terrible smell, and when I say terrible, I mean horrific!
We went up stairs and it reeked bad!
I looked around and saw that the kitty litter was overflowing and needed emptying pronto, so I went and dealt with it. when I got back from that however, I noticed that it still reeked, so I had a look around, and noticed that there was a wok that we had used to cook satay chicken in a few nights before. I washed it out, but there was still a really foul smell coming from somewhere, so I looked a noticed that there was two lots of chicken that I had taken out of the fridge a few days ago and had forgotten about but didn't throw out because we could feed it to the cats, so it got left out overnight and half the day today. It was totally rank! it was a hot day today and man that chicken really reeked bad!
I threw the chicken away and instantly things got better.
After I had dealt the chicken, I went to the bathroom to wash my hands.
I was walking out of the bathroom after washing my hands when it hit me!
The Lord was teaching me a lesson and I instantly knew what He was getting at, because this scripture came to mind.
Mat 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Mat 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Now the verse is about eyes and the lesson involved houses, but it's the same principal!
If He had talked to me audibly this would probably been what He would have said to me.
You hypocrite! why do you concern yourself with mother and sister in law's house, when your own house stinks!
I'm am very grateful to my Lord for this lesson. I wasn't sure if I should post this or not, but I thought someone might get something out of it.
Martinez.