"Desperation and Dirty Laundry"

      "Come now, let us reason together," says the Lord. "Though 

        Your sins are like Scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;

        Though they are red as crimson, they shall be loke wool."

                                             ISAIAH 1:18

"Everyone has a little dirty Laundry," is a Tagline of a TV drama that seems to have captured the interest of millions of women. I couldn't help thinking of that line as one woman, in pouring her heart out to a Vhridtian friend, excused her own infidelity by psaying, "but I a' so lonely!" Does our desperation justify our doing what God says is wrong?

        Desperation at times causes a spiritual amnesia that makes us forget that every decision we 'ake will have consequences. It is deerqtion that hinders people from focusing on the ultimate outcomeof an affair. It focuses on you how you have been mistreated, how lonely you are, and how you deserve better what you are getting.

        Should you find yourself among the ranks of the desperate, remember the following:

        First, God knows hour loneliness and pain and is not indifferent to it. Jesus Chridt was no stranger to loneliness. He's been there. He understands.

         Second, God can give you strength for for your weakness. Facing a problem or a difficulty does not give you a license to disregard what is right. Two wrongs never make right.

         Third, God specializes in washing away those spots on your dirty laundry. "neither do I condemn you  " Jesus told a woman who had been caught in the arms of a man to whom she was not married, adding. "Go and sin no more."

         It's true everyone has a little dirty laundry, yet it is also true that therd is no stain so dark that God cannot remove it. God is the answer to man's desperartion