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Isaiah 1:16
King James Version
16 Wash you, make you clean;
put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes;
cease to do evil;
If it isn't so serious, I'd be laughing.
Still, I find it funny.
All because GOD wired me for words.
And my childlike heart dances, and prances.
Getting creative, but making sure the message is given.
Especially when words play in my mind.
I write about GOD's commands.
What He wants us to do.
What He knows we've done.
And how we can get right with Him.
SPIRIT planted the idea in my mind yesterday.
Of how many of us are actually in business.
Specifically, the LAUNDRY business.
Consider these:
We air out our laundry.
In public, usually.
We air out our grievances.
We speak badly of each other.
We speak of how we've been treated badly.
We speak of how we want to get even.
Now, we have social media to soil others, too.
We call that "airing our dirty laundry".
Can you smell the stink in the air?
Surely, a snake can be found in that pile.
What, with the venom we spit out.
We have many issues to sort out among ourselves.
It's just too bad it's not in private.
Where level-headedness ought to prevail.
As it is, we'd rather rant, and rave, in public.
We try to outdo each other's filth.
I don't think any detergent can clean that.
And I don't think any industrial-size washer can hold all that.
But what's probably worse?
When we boast of how we've hurt others.
As if collecting scalps.
I dread GOD's wrath.
Considering how He cares for all of us.
Man is so very asleep.
A different kind of laundry.
The corrupt normally do that.
They find a place to stash their stash away.
Usually, they have tax havens abroad.
Or they put it in banks that accept that.
With the banks turning a blind eye.
If volume counts, then volume it is.
Volume of money, from a volume of elite.
The born again asks a few questions, though.
Why do governments put money in such banks?
Why put it outside your country?
Isn't that the people's money?
Don't your people need it?
Aren't governments under the payroll of the people?
How much do officials earn?
Is it enough to put in tax havens?
Imagine the poverty of most people.
Imagine where the people's money went.
Guns, goons, and gold, as they say.
As you put it in your tax haven, the people are living in hell.
Well, when the LORD comes, the tables will be turned.
We all need laundry.
All that cleaning of clothes, or beddings, cannot wash our filth.
We can be clean outside, but are we clean inside?
Are the temples of our bodies worthy of the HOLY SPIRIT?
When our clothes and beddings smell nice, are we really aromatic?
Would we be like Noah's offering, which pleased the LORD?
Genesis 8:20-21
King James Version
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord;
and took of every clean beast,
and of every clean fowl,
and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour;
and the Lord said in his heart,
I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake;
for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;
neither will I again smite any more every thing living,
as I have done.
I, too, am in the laundry business.
GOD made me born again over four years ago.
He tasked me to write.
To write, warn, and wake up.
To address our filth, and faith.
To repent, revive, and reveal.
That we may all be acceptable to GOD.
When our spirit has been soiled, only JESUS can wash that.
Only He can make us clean.
We shall be free of our dirty laundry -- forever.
We become new creatures, who don't need the trappings of the world.
This can be done, when we are "born of the water and of the Spirit".
John 3:5-7
King James Version
5 Jesus answered,
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh;
and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.
We also need a different kind of water.
From the "fountain of living waters".
Jeremiah 17:13
King James Version
13 O Lord, the hope of Israel,
all that forsake thee shall be ashamed,
and they that depart from me
shall be written in the earth,
because they have forsaken the Lord,
the fountain of living waters.
We need the "living water", that is JESUS.
John 4:10
King James Version
10 Jesus answered and said unto her,
If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee,
Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him,
and he would have given thee living water.
But as it is, we have broken cisterns.
Jeremiah 2:12-13
King James Version
12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this,
and be horribly afraid,
be ye very desolate,
saith the Lord.
13 For my people have committed two evils;
they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters,
and hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns,
that can hold no water.
Because we have much filth.
James 1:21
King James Version
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness
and superfluity of naughtiness,
and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
which is able to save your souls.
For that, we need the BAPTISM of FIRE.
Matthew 3:11-12
King James Version
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance.
but he that cometh after me is mightier than I,
whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:
he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost,
and with fire:
12 Whose fan is in his hand,
and he will throughly purge his floor,
and gather his wheat into the garner;
but he will burn up the chaff
with unquenchable fire.
We need to get out of our old laundry businesses.
Much better we do what SPIRIT taught me.
To be washed of our sins, through JESUS.
We need to be in the WATER business.
We need the WATER that ONLY GOD can provide.
That all may be washed clean.
And I don't speak of your clothes.
Or your linens.
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