Broken Messes

Outside of Christ we are broken messes. 

 ALL of us. 

 Every person and every relationship.  

Marriage, ministry, adoption, parents, children, finances, business.

EVERYTHING and EVERYONE

BROKEN!

There has been a ton of controversy on adoption lately. 

 It's bad news many times.

 It's difficult stuff, on EVERY side.

Adoption gets an extra dose of "broken and hard" because you are dealing with
defenseless children.

I have been wrestling with aspects of this a lot lately.  Not because there
 IS
 controversy or difficult situations, but because there is no easy answer, no black and white
 FIX  to ANY of it.

I have been asking the Lord, "WHAT...WHAT....WHAT is a person to do?"
 I have just felt like He has said over and over....
JESUS!  JESUS!  JESUS!!!

He is the only answer. 

 He is the only healer.

He is the only defender.

He is the only provider.

  When you are trying to fix rules or institutions or governments...it's NEVER going to work...ONLY JESUS works.

  ONLY JESUS fixes things.

 I realize we have to live in this broken world, with broken people and broken rules all around us and we will have to until Jesus comes back...but that is why we must keep our EVERYTHING...

our voice our eyes our feet

 all LOOKING AND SPEAKING AND WALKING WITH JESUS 

and HE will do a mighty work. 

 It will be through these broken messy people and situations but it has to be

 IN CHRIST ALONE THROUGH GRACE ALONE.

We have to SPEAK and WALK everyday and every situation with JESUS through JESUS and NEVER lose sight of that.  

Yes....people will marry and adopt and have children and jobs and finances and businesses that do not have CHRIST, but that is why we have to be so bold and loud and  focused on Him, and SHARE HIM and HIS LOVE.

Yes, us CHRISTIANS will have trouble in this world too....the same troubles as everyone...if not MORE.  

We are promised "trials", but here's the fun part...we have our big awesome perfect 

FATHER

 who is our DEFENDER, PROVIDER, HEALER, and ANSWER to EVERYTHING, and if we introduce HIM to the world, then we all win, because

 HE WILL NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US.

He is FAITHFUL.

So here's my challenge.....I want to try to only speak on something if I have spoken with my 

HEAVENLY FATHER about it FIRST,

 and only if I have talked to HIM as much and as passionately as I'm going to give my opinion to the world,
 then MAYBE the time spent with HIM will rub off on me and show

 JESUS

in the situation and THAT is the real  and ONLY answer anyway.  

Galatians 5:14-25

English Standard Version (ESV)

14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Keep in Step with the Spirit

16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,[a]drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, thatthose who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.