A Beautiful Mess

I can go days on end without picking up clothes or putting clean ones away. When I am lazy I let my dirty dishes stay in my room-NASTY! My bathroom...that's a black hole in itself. Needless to say I am a very messy person. The times when my room or bathroom or car are a complete disaster, I do not feel very beautiful or worthy of anything. The mess in those places are reminders of my laziness, inadequacy, and disorganization and it leaves me feeling YUCKY! However, when i have days devoted to cleaning and really disinfecting every room well, I feel a new sense about me. It feels great to have stuff clean.
I had a cleaning day yesterday and in that our Heavenly Papa revealed to me the importance of acknowledging messes and not just the room messes, but the spiritual messes as well. I couldn't see the floor in my room yesterday and it took me 4 hours to clean it-YIKES! The longer we ignore a mess, the longer it will take to clean. Maybe our mess is finances or an unhealthy relationship or anger towards parents. The longer we ignore the mess the longer it will stay a mess.
King David is known for being a man after God's own heart, but he had his fair share of messes, one being the beautiful Bathsheba. David had an affair with Bathsheba, another man's wife, that man was in fact one of Davids most faithful soldiers. What a mess! To further that mess Bathesheba got pregnant, so David tried to trick her husband into sleeping with her to play off the pregnancy. Being a loyal soldier Uriah (The husbands name) never did. Because of this David ordered Uriah to be in the lines of battle that would be sure to have him killed. A filthy mess. Nathan the prophet revealed to David this mess he created. Upon hearing this David mourned and fasted and begged the Lord for forgiveness. David's mess needed to cleaned and he acknowledge that. Through the cleansing of his self created mess David became closer to the Lord.
The messes in our lives are not present so we can continue being messy or to make us feel inadequate and ugly, they are present to make us aware of our need for a saviour and a cleansing. A mess is not beautiful, however the cleaning and the end result is pure brilliance! Messes are to be cleaned up and reveal to us we are beautifully made!