Beautiful Mess

Life is such a beautiful mess. How often do we stop and realize how beautiful yet crazy this life is? Not often enough. We just keep going on with the flow of life. We cross one thing off our to do list and move onto the next thing on our agenda. This world consumes us. There is never enough time in the day to just be silent. There is never enough time in the day to really sit back and relax. Often times, it's not until something bad happens, that we ask God for help. When things go a wry and we need help, we call out to God. We cry and cry and cry until He saves us from our own self pity. We blame God for bad things happening, when in reality, it is our sinful nature that allows bad things to happen to us. The messes that we make, God is always right behind us cleaning up what we haven't. God is the first one to be upset with us and the first one to forgive us. More than most times, we are the last people to forgive ourselves. But why not get into the habit of forgiving yourself first? Why not realizing that you messed up and that you won't do it again? Why blame God for letting it happen when you were the one to be disobedient to what He said in the first place. It's not until we finally make it out of the mess that we realize we are lost and alone without God. That even in the worst situation of our life, God is GOOD; even in the midst of a hell storm. God makes a mess into a message, a beautiful one at that. There isn't a moment in the day that God isn't good, because HE IS ALWAYS GOOD. When we decide that being one with the Lord and obeying Him is more important than living in the world, prosperity and life and freedom and joy overcome our hearts. We meet God in the midst of it all and experience His goodness forever. As humans, we have this first nature to think that if anything bad ever happens, it's because the Lord wants it to. Really though, that is not the case. The fact of the matter is that, bad things happen because of sin. Not because God is not good, because God is always good. But after the hell storm is over, we need to be still and just wait upon the Lord. Just sit and listen. Don't talk or go off onto the next errand you have to do, just shut up and wait. God wants to talk to you because a majority of the time we are the ones doing the talking. But just listen and wait patiently until the Lord calls you by name and speaks truth into your heart. We need to realize that every mess made is turned into something beautiful and we can be redeemed from it. In the Lord's presence, we are made whole. And in the Lord's goodness, we find freedom. So let it go. Learn from your messes. Be quiet. Listen. Find freedom and be made whole.