Deficient vs. Sufficient

There are so many times when I feel "deficient".  As a stay at home mom, I do the majority of the housework.  I want so badly to keep up with everything and wear a dress and pearls while I straighten pillows because the house is in perfect order.  This is not how my day plays out.  Ever.  I have a hard time keeping up with the laundry.  Every blue moon, it gets caught up.  Most days, I wash something twice because my front loading washer will make the load smell musty if I don't get the wash in the dryer quickly.  I don't keep the rubber gasket cleaned with vinegar or whatever the organic remedy to mildew in the washer is right now.  All this to say, I am generally deficient in my housekeeping skills.  But my deficiency drives me to find sufficiency.  As I am deficient in housekeeping, I am not able to keep myself unspotted by sin.  I wash and wash, re-wash.  But the clothes, my being, becomes dirty again.  I can't keep up.  Jesus came to do the complete deep cleaning job on my person.  He removed every spot of sin from me.  He gave me the Holy Spirit to dwell in me, so that I will never get permanently stained again.  I know Jesus keeps me unspotted from the world, as I trust in Him.  I may pick up a little road dirt, I may mess up along the way, but those spots wash off easily as I turn away from those sins and turn back to Jesus.  Better than Ivory, I am as white as snow in God's eyes.  The Lord Jesus is so perfectly sin/spot free, that when I am in Him, God sees me as sin free too.  As long as I live on earth, there will be instances of picking up road dirt, but God helps me to see it, and wash it off by agreeing with Him that it is there. The continual washing off of road dirt is called Sanctification.  It is God's process of helping us conform our lives and behavior to the truth.  I am thankful for God helping me see my deficiency in myself, and showing me my sufficiency in Christ.