{"id":2317,"date":"2017-04-30T07:28:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T07:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2017-04-30T07:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T07:28:38","slug":"my-heart-gods-home-part-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2317","title":{"rendered":"My Heart, God&#8217;s Home (Part Six)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Laundry Room (Wash-house)&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was a bit reluctant to take my Guest<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-23-15.42.10.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2318\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-04-23-15.42.10-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"2017-04-23 15.42.10\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a> into the laundry room. But He insisted. \u201cI need to see ALL your house, if I\u2019m to stay with you\u201d He said as we went down the passage. \u201cYou know I will never leave you nor forsake you, and I want you to willingly show Me each room in your house!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He must have sensed my reluctance. As we opened the door it was as bad as I had feared. The damp clothes that I had been meaning to wash last week made a horrid stench as we went in.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c I meant to do the washing but somehow there were other things to do\u201d, I muttered shamefacedly, \u201cThings like going to Bible Study and church services\u201d, hoping to make it sound a bit better.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThose things are good things, but we are not to leave the other things undone\u201d, He said, \u201cI have given you twenty-four hours each day to make use of. See that you use them wisely. You don\u2019t really need ten hours of sleep you know! Just get up earlier in the morning\u2026.I\u2019m always waiting for you to come and see Me, no matter how early it is!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He knew me only too well. \u201cOh Lord!\u201d, I cried, \u201cYou know all my weaknesses and failings, there is nothing I can hide from You! Search my heart and show me where I\u2019m at, and lead me to do better!\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I realise now that <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He knows me through and through,\u00a0 and there is no point in trying to hide things from Him . &#8220;O Lord&#8221;, I cried, &#8220;Help me to make better use of my time! Help me to organize things better and to not keep putting things off that need doing!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-NZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Laundry Room (Wash-house)&#8230;&#8230; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I was a bit reluctant to take my Guest into the laundry room. But He insisted. \u201cI need to see ALL your house, if I\u2019m to stay with you\u201d He said as we went down the passage. \u201cYou know I will never leave you nor forsake you, and I want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=2317\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Heart, God&#8217;s Home (Part Six)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[307],"tags":[323,324,322],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-failings","tag-organise","tag-weaknesses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-Bn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}