Daily Devotion for April 25, 2006
Cleaning up the Mess
But me he caught -- reached all the way from sky to sea; He pulled me out of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos, the void in which I was drowning. They hit me when I was down, but God stuck by me. He stood me up on a wide-open field; I stood there saved -- surprised to be loved! God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. Psalm 18:16-19
I recently was trying to clean up around the house (my first mistake) and I ended up knocking something down and breaking it. Realizing that no one noticed, I decided that I would quickly clean it up and toss it away. Carefully cleaning up all the slivers, I had destroyed all the evidence! A few minutes later I was back as if nothing happened! No one would know anything had ever occurred.
Later I got thinking, isn't this true of us? When our lives are shattered, we quickly clean away the slivers lest someone see the mess, even God. The irony is that when we really think we've got it all together is precisely the time we begin to fall apart.
Our first step toward becoming the people the Father would have us be is when we are willing to put down the pieces instead of picking them up, when we are willing to give God the pieces instead of handling the mess ourselves. It's when we are willing to take such a step of faith that God will handle the mess and give us back our lives, shiny, new, and changed.
Prayer
Father, thank you for rescuing us from certain death. How often we want to handle all of the messes we make of our lives all by ourselves. Here are the pieces of our broken lives. Take them, Lord. Put them back together as only you can. Make our lives what they need to be. Change us so it's no longer our will but your will at work. In the name of the One who loved us before the world was. Amen.
Father, thank you for rescuing us from certain death. How often we want to handle all of the messes we make of our lives all by ourselves. Here are the pieces of our broken lives. Take them, Lord. Put them back together as only you can. Make our lives what they need to be. Change us so it's no longer our will but your will at work. In the name of the One who loved us before the world was. Amen.
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