How Big is Your Bathtub?

I've been Spring cleaning in the bathroom this week. I've sorted the medicine cabinet, gone through the drawers, cleaned the outside of the toilet, wiped down the light bulbs...etc. The number one thing that I dread in the bathroom is without a doubt, hands down, cleaning the bathtub. I don't care how many products there are out there that say "no scrubbing necessary," you just HAVE to use a little elbow grease on the bathtub! It's a pain, and I've been avoiding it all week.

Until this morning. I had a little change of heart when I read this:
He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths. -1 Kings 7:23-26

For those of you who may be wondering what "the Sea" was, it was basically one very large bathtub! Actually, it was one large bathtub that held several baths. The "Sea" was to be used by the Priests for washing. Did I say large? I meant gigantic! Think about it. One cubit is about 18 inches. I don't know about yours, but my bathtub is about four feet, or a little over two and a half cubits long, and maybe one and a half cubits high. That is nothing compared to Solomon's bath!

I'm still trying to picture it. I mean, I've heard of claw foot tubs before, but entire bulls? A dozen of them? I would love a nice large jet tub that I can sink into and disappear someday, but I think I'll pass on the one that I need a ladder to climb into! Who's going to clean that? The housekeeper? I certainly would not have wanted to be Solomon's wife back then.

All I'm saying is that today I am going to tackle my tub, and I will never complain about cleaning it again. Well, until next Spring and then I'll just sit down and read this as a little reminder of how lucky I am!

^{Colossians 3:23-24} Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.