How many times have I told my family, “You can use the kitchen, so long as you clean up your mess.” As parents, we start teaching our children as toddlers that we clean up our own messes. We pick up our toys, blocks, and help clean up our spilled milk. As we grow older, and see people making dumb choices we sometimes say “You made your bed, now you can lie in it” or “You got yourself into this mess, you get yourself out.” Our human nature guides us to be responsible for ourselves, and clean up our own messes. This is the thinking that causes people to think they have to clean up and straighten up their lives before they come to church or before they come to God. We don’t feel worthy to ask God to help us out of a mess we made ourselves. To those who are already saved, and manage to mess up and make bad choices (as we always do), we think that God is going to rain down judgment and certainly won’t help us out of a bad situation we put ourselves in.
Fortunately, God is not human. Romans 11:33 says “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” The most awesome thing is that God came to clean up our mess. He knew we couldn’t do it, that we had made too big of a mess of our lives. Romans 5:8 says that “God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” He didn’t say, if you will change and clean up your life, I will die for you and save you. The only thing you have to do is believe that you need Him and that He is God and came to save you. Is your life in a mess right now? Do you feel like it’s more than you can handle, but you don’t feel that you have the right to ask God for help. Please remember God’s great love for you, and know that He wants to help clean up your mess!
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