Do you ever feel like God’s calling us to live messy? At least a lot messier than we are?
I don’t mean neglecting the laundry or tossing the vacuum. I mean stepping outside the orderly. Stepping outside the safe. Stepping outside the bubble-wrapped. I mean rolling up our sleeves and getting dirty.
Sometimes I get the feeling that my life’s too tidy. Too neat. Too sanitized.
I go the easy way because the hard’s too much work.
But you know what?
We don’t experience God in the easy. There’s no growth to be had in the simple.
We experience God when things are so hard and so out-of-our-control and so untidy that all we can do is throw up our hands and trust that He will show up in the midst of the chaos.
A couple Sundays ago, my pastor said something that spoke so powerfully to my heart. To my husband’s too. He said, “If you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, then get in over your heads.”
Too often, I put off the promptings of the Spirit until I have everything organized and figured out and straightened up.
Too often, I ignore the impulses of the Spirit because it feels too messy. Too complicated. Too out of my control. Too over my head.
But maybe that’s the point.
Maybe, when we step outside the safe lines that make up our lives, we see His grace and His power and His provision in a way we never would had we stuck with the status quo.
Maybe in those risky, uncertain moments, His glory shines the brightest.
Let’s Talk: Tell me about a time you got messy and risked for God.
*Picture by aidan1923
