What Your Mama Told You about Leaving The House Without Clean Underdrawers

Once again my wife is gonna kill me but it is too perfect to pass up. You know how since being a small child you mama has told you to never ever leave home with dirty underdrawers in case you are in a car wreck? Guess what happened to my wife this past Tuesday? You bet ya.

I had been home sick sick since Sunday past. I could have died or even worst by Monday. I was still laying in bed on Tuesday when the kids came home around 4:00pm. I never heard them. Then around 6:00pm Mom rolls in and I didn't hear her either. Now somehow the kids cahold their Mom to take the to their friends Volleyball game over at the college campus. Now remember I'm completly unawares of these goings on. So an hour later I get a phone call from my wife hysterical because she has has had a wreck on the Hendrix University campus. I ask if she is ok physically and in between sobs she says yes. I ask if the damage is sever. She says no it's not good but not totalled in her estimation. All along she continues to squall. Finally I ask her, babe, whats really going on, why do you keep crying? Finally she admits it. This is what happened

When the kids asked if they could go to the volleyball game they had failed to do a number of things. First they had left their rooms a mess that morning. Secondly, they had brought home a school mate which they know is forbidden without prior approval. They all thought since we were not supposed to be here they could get away with breaking these rules.
Man were they in for a surprise when they saw the car in the driveway when they got off the school bus.

So while I'm asleep they all give Mom this sad, pitifully song and dance about this volleyball game and of course gives in an. So Mom just thinking that it will take a few minutes to run then mover to the game loads them up and off they go, a few minutes I get this frantic phone call because Mom has, after dropping the kids off, rear-ended a lady and is now waiting for the Conway Police to come. She is mortified because she had failed to change clothes before she left home. Now close your eyes and picture this. My wife wearing her mismatched pink and purple fuzzy socks. No shoes. Wearing her most favorite and comfortable pink thermal long john pants with the reindeer on them. A two size too big funky gray satined yucky tee-shirt with no brazier and an a hairdo that looks like a Tesla experiment gone bad. The encyclopedic definition of of unprepared for the car wreck your Momma told you about. When I saw her I nearly blew a vessel in my brain and then it dawned on me.

How many of us go out in this exact way totally unprepared for the "what ifs". What if we are put in a situation to comfort someone we do not know. Are we spiritually dressed? What if we encounter someone with that question, whose answer from us could be a heaven of hell moment? Are we spiritually dressed?. What about the influences of this life? The influences from our past. That old girlfriend or boyfriend? Are we spiritually dressed to deal with the influence and temptation that is often accompanied by such an encounter?
My wife made a common yet embarrassing mistake by taking out of the house with confidence that nothing bad, important or kingdom changing could happen. In fact, it did.

The next time you leave home, put on your clean undies, don't wear your pink thermal sleep pants with the reindeer. And by goodness sakes put on a bra and comb your hair. But most importantly put on your desire and ability to lead others to Christ by the way you live your life, the way you take questioss from conversation to introduce how Jesus has changed your life. And above all how Jesus let you go out of the house one day dressed in pink thermal sleep pants with little brown reindeer, as humiliating as it was, just so you could use this start as an introduction into your experience of relationship with our Savior Jesus Christ.