Laundry Mat Love

I know the title of this post sounds a bit odd but stick it out and I know you will be blessed by it.

Let me paint the picture for you:
It is 9:30am on a Saturday, I am at the laundry mat because I am running out of clean clothes and in 140 square feet I just can't find the space for a washer and dryer. I am the only one here except for the young couple I am about to desribe. Now before I say anything else and make myself sound like a creeper the following observations anyone would be able to make, creeper or non creeper. With my disclaimer claimed I will procede. This couple followed me into the laundry mat and proceded to do their laundry, as they put their articles in the machines they talked as if if they were sitting at a candle light dinner and the hum of the dryers was a string quartet. Their love made even the most normal tasks special. As they waited they played rock, paper and item that cuts paper, yet they were not loud about their love and their friendship like so many are these days, their love was their own, no one else seemed to be needed to tell them their love was vaild, they just lived it out.

This is a great picture of the gospel, because marriage is a picture of the gospel, we can gain so much insight into both by looking at the other. Just like this couple's love gave laundry meaning, the gospel also gives meaning to everyday life. Now going to work is not just going to work it is a battle to be won each and everyday. My friendships are no longer for my own pleasure but, they are men to fight beside in our war againist our old nature. They are now my brothers to be praying for. The gospel has now caused the women in my life are not for my own pleasure, they are sister's to be defended and loved because of the gospel. Their love gave meaning to those things things that normally are mundane, just as the Gospel gives meaning to life.