Today’s National Day Calendar celebration may be a bit of a bummer. You might even feel a bit cheated. This is National Do No Housework Day. Our ladies are saying, “This is the Lord’s Day, and we weren’t doing housework anyway.” If it makes you feel better, why not treat it like a federal holiday that falls on a weekend and gets celebrated the Friday before or the Monday after the day. That means tomorrow is your Do No Housework Day! Hurray for you!
The creators of this day are a couple of weirdos! This is by their own admission on their website. Their 80 special “holidays” include the first one of the year, Happy Mew Year For Cats Day on January 2nd, Hug an Australian Day (April 26), Embrace Your Geekness Day (July 13), Be A Dork Day (July 15), Wonderful Weirdos Day (September 9), Name Your PC Day (November 20), and one of my favorites, Bifocals At The Monitor Liberation Day (December 1) – a day to feel sorry for those like me who have to navigate a computer screen wearing bifocals.1 With our heads bobbing up and down, side to side, we look like one of those silly birds that do the same thing.
Now, back to what today (or tomorrow) is all about. This is a day to say, “The
housework can wait. The dust will be there tomorrow. There’s room in the sink (or dishwasher) for one more dish. The vacuum will be quiet and remain in its closet. And the washer and dryer are taking a break, too. The laundry will get folded and put away another day. This is my one day strike – a show of protest against all household messiness!” If you think about it, celebrating this day tomorrow stretches this wonderful celebration into TWO days – no housework today or tomorrow. Can I get an Amen?
While the housework gets to rest today, there is some other housework that cannot rest. 1 Peter 4:17 says, “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” Jesus said in John 15:1-2, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. (2) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.”
As you sit under the teaching of God’s Word today in Sunday School and church, the 
Lord is using the messages to do some housework. He is purging or pruning the branches so that they will become more fruitful. He is sweeping the dirt in our lives out the door.
Don’t resist the Lord’s attempts to clean house. Let Him have his way in your life. While you may get a day off from cleaning, the Lord never takes a day off and is constantly working in each of our lives to make us a clean vessel, fit for the Master’s use.
1https://wellcat.com/pages/holidays
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