A newlywed couple moved into an well established neighborhood.  The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the wife saw her neighbor hanging the laundry outside. "That laundry is not very clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looked on not knowing how to answer he just remained silent.

 

Week after week every time the neighbor lady hung her laundry to dry, the young wife would make the same comments. Time and again she offered to her husband to go over and tell the woman how to wash. Her husband looked on not knowing how to answer he just remained silent.

 

Another month later, the young woman was surprised to see a sparkling clean white wash on the line. She said to her husband: "Look at our neighbor's laundry, she has finally learned how to do laundry correctly. I wonder who taught her how to do this?"

 

Finally her husband had enough courage to say, "I got up real early this morning and cleaned our windows!"

 

Beloved, so it is in the life of any Christ-follower. What we see when watching other people depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

 

“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.”  Psalm 51:10

 

 

In Christ of Living Hope,

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Pastor

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