Messy Spirtuality by Sherea VeJauan

Picture a busy restaurant with customers waiting to be seated, and with people laughing, eating, and drinking. The food is delicious and the conversation is good. Suddenly a waitress, with a tray full of just prepared plates and clientele that are eagerly anticipating their meals, trips and spills food all over the floor.  Everything stops, with the only remaining sound being  the echoes of the plates and glasses that just crashed to the ground.  Conversations, eating, and drinking cease while the pleasant faces of people enjoying a night out turn into shocked stares of disbelief.

Immediately she becomes embarrassed.  As she tries to recover from the accident, thoughts race through her mind.   What will her guests think?  Will they be afraid that she will mess up again and spill food on them?   Will the other servers be afraid to ask her for help?  What will happen to that raise she requested from her boss?   When customers come back will they say, “No, not that section please, that girl made a mess the last time we were here.”  And worse of all, because of what happened, would she now be disqualified from serving?

Well let me say that is the real world, but in God’s world he gives us room to make mistakes, even when the whole world stares in disbelief as we make a complete mess out of our lives. We lose friends, we lose support, and people are afraid to trust us again wondering if we will mess up like the last time.

God on the other hand sees our messes as opportunities to show off his grace.  He rushes over with his towels of comfort and encouragement, his bleach of righteousness, and his sanitizer of love and protection.  And as we are still trying to clean things up ourselves he replies “ What mess?  I don’t see a mess.  I don’t even remember a mess. Now go in the back, wash up, change your clothes, and get back out there and keep serving.”  And best of all, because of what happened, we are now even more qualified for service because we are a testament of his grace.

Messy Spirituality

 Messy, Messy Spirituality

Does your so-called holy degree

Also give you a license to condemn me?

Yes, it’s true;

out of my life I’ve made a mess

With every tribulation

I’ve failed at the test

Having to start all over again

only to confess

That once again I have sinned…

Will I ever live like I’m blessed?

While worldly peers

I’ve tried to impress, Nevertheless

God has come to rescue me with his love

And cleanse me from all unrighteousness…

Blind eyes can’t see that God is constantly changing me,

Equipping me for the path he’s getting ready to take me.

See I messed up, I made a mistake, I admit that I’ve sinned.

But don’t keep denying me and disqualifying me

Cause God has redeemed my sin.

But it’s this Messy, Messy Spirituality

That’s trying to convince me – and you – that I’m not worthy

To receive the riches that were promised to me

Riches passed on by my Father

Who in his hands holds eternity!

Now let’s be truthful,

I am messed up now

and was messed up then

That’s why Jesus took my place and replaced his love on the cross for my sin

So when God hung his head, shed blood and died on Calvary

Are you saying he just died for you?

And his blood wasn’t enough to cover me?

Oh, ok, now I see…

It’s this Messy, Messy Spirituality

trying to convince me

That living for Christ ain’t easy

See, sometimes I gotta roll up my sleeves and let my elbows get greasy

Cause my salvation ain’t just for me

But so I can preach to the whole world  around me

That the key to not tripping about this mess

Is to understand that with this physical life comes enduring spiritual tests

And sometimes I may pass with flying colors

But at other times I may fall,

But that’s no different than any other

We all have come short at one time or another

So I’ve learned that when I’m up

I don’t give up on my  brother.

We all make mistakes, some publicly some privately

But God gave me grace, so I can acknowledge my sin,

Repent and He can restore me

I let others in on the truth so they can see His grace

Not so the whole world would be free to condemn me.

Please understand that I’m not justifying my mess

Or putting the focus on somebody else

I’m just saying I made a mistake and God dealt with me

And I’m going to make more mistakes – but not intentionally

Every situation may not be pretty

So I need you to consistently pray that I will be

Always on a journey to where God is taking me

What you need to comprehend

Is that God had my back and he paid for my sins,

And not just for some, but the full amount

So when other folks said I was messed up,

God replied, “No my child, that mess don’t count.”

About: Sheréa VéJauan is the author of “Realistically Speaking: Speaking What’s Real. . . Keeping What’s Holy”Get your copy today! http://ow.ly/4UadV