The reality of life is that it’s messy and that’s what makes it beautiful.
It feels like I am constantly cleaning up messes. The messes of daily life like dishes, laundry, and house cleaning keep me busy (and I don’t even have kids). Even without technically making a “mess” there are continual messes. Then it multiplies when you add in dropping the jar that breaks all over the floor, the crack in your windshield, or the appliance that stops working. That still doesn’t count the real messes of our lives like the relationship that is broken, the finances that aren’t making ends meet, and the obstacle you just can’t seem to overcome. Life is full of messes big and small. So often we see the messes as an inconvenience. We define it as dirty or difficult. What if we could embrace the mess? What if we saw the mess as a part of the journey of life? Somehow we expect life to be clean and see the messes as getting in the way of the life that we want when in fact messes make you more you. We are human. We are messy. And it’s a beautiful mess.
“God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. “
Romans 8:3, Message
Very few stories throughout the Bible come without any messes involved. It is full of stories of pain, sorrow, loss, evil, enemies, lies, disobedience and more. Yet somehow the message we get is that we aren’t supposed to be messy. Unfortunately the reality is that life is messy. All throughout history we see this to be the case. This is why we are in such desperate need of Jesus. Here is Romans Paul is looking at the messy human condition that the laws and the rules were never made to fix, but rather they reveal how messy we really are in our humanity. Rather than staying far away from our mess Jesus entered into it so that He could set it right and set us right. While, we still live in a messy world, we have the hope that one day it won’t feel quite so messy. We have the peace that Jesus sits with us in our mess and loves us right there in the midst of it. We have the truth that we have been made whole while we are still walking in brokenness. We have Jesus who enters our mess and makes it beautiful.
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by Dennis Lazau
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