Bless This Mess

I saw this little quip, "Bless This Mess" on a sign at our local Wal-Mart and just had to have it. It describes my house and my life accurately. The sign sits on a glass shelf surrounded by dust particles making the sign that much more accurate. It is a mess, but yet it asks a simple request to bless that mess.

My life, my heart echoes the sentiments of this sign. My heart is sinful, it makes mistakes, it's deceitful above all things, it is truly a mess, but yet it quietly cries out to God for His blessings.

That's exactly what God does and has done for centuries. He blesses the messes that man has made throughout history.

From the mess made at the tower of Babel where languages were confused and nations were scattered, God brought a blessing and made a great nation and blessed Abraham and his people to follow. To Abraham, he said the following,

"I will make you a great nation,

And I will bless you,

And make your name great;

And so you shall be a blessing;

And I will bless those who bless you,

And the one who curses you I will curse." Genesis 12:2-3

This blessing did not only bless Abraham and his descendants. God continues to say to Abraham in verse 3 "...And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed."

Wow! We went from a world-wide catastrophic mess to a blessing for the entire earth.

That blessing came in the form of one God in human form, the very Word of God sent in the form of a man.

"The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14

God sent His son as a blessing to the world, yet humans still made a mess of that. People didn't believe, they mocked, the scorned, they even killed the very blessing from God. God so loved this world that he gave it the blessing of His one and only Son.

What a mess we get ourselves into. Yet, God in His grace and mercy turned the mess into a blessing, in fact it seems that the mess and the blessing are all tied into one in this wonderful sacrifice. His curse of hanging on that tree was a blessing for mankind.

My life is a mess. My sins are messy, they are stained with worldly desires and much like the sins at the tower of Babel, they seem to speak their own language that is contrary to the Word of God.

Yet, God says, I will bless you and all the families of the earth. The blessing is there and ready for the taking, if we are willing. The blessing is in the form of a Savior. Our hearts are smudged and stained with sin, yet God offers this blessing,

"Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool." Isaiah 1:18

We need only come to Him, believe and confess that Jesus is God's Son and seek His forgiveness and be washed clean of those messy sins. What a blessing that is!