For a refresher, this series of posts is inspired by some of the things I'm learning from my son about my relationship with God. Click here for lesson 1.
Lesson 2 is kind of gross.
When Mac has a dirty diaper he lets you know it. He doesn't enjoy sitting around in his own mess. How on Earth does that have anything to do with God you ask? Well, a lot honestly. We all have our own mess. The difference in my life is that I tend to sit in my mess and expect it to go away on it's own.
Truth be told however, the only way to get our mess cleaned up is to get out of it and do something different. Think about it this way: suppose you spill the spaghetti sauce pan on yourself at the dinner table. There's no way you could clean up the mess while you sat there in it. The only way to fix the problem is to get up and approach the mess from a different perspective.
Similarly, we have to somehow approach our emotional or physical messes from a new perspective. And like my son's diaper mess, if we don't clean up our mess it can and probably will cause further pain. What I've found in my own life is that to really get my mess cleaned up, I need to ask for help.
Do you have people in your life that love you and are willing to help you clean up the mess you've made? Are you humble enough to ask for help when you need it? The answer to these two questions may reveal a lot about what your future will look like. As Scripture says, "a cord of three stands is not quickly broken."
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