Fixing

Good Morning,

Each morning, we get up and have to start fixing things. The task may be our hair or clothing, but it will eventually get to our house or yard (pulling weeds, washing dirty cloths, doing dishes, etc). Correcting messes is a lifelong project.  In some cases, we end up fixing a major fiasco we caused ourselves.

Fixing is really more a part of our lives than building; for everything we do will need to be fixed at some point, and many things we did not build will become our problem to fix.

God has been in the fixing business for eternity.

The trouble is we do not allow Him have as much freedom to fix as often as He would like.  He has to pester us to come to Him.

Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

David understood the need to come to God and to allow Him to fix problems.

Psalm 51:7 “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”

It is the Lord Who will clean up the church so that it is fit to be presented to Himself:

Ephesians 5:26 “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”

vs. 27 “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

It is the Lord Who makes us acceptable:

Ephesians 1:6 “To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.”

Our primary issues are drawing close to the Lord, listening to Him, and allowing Him to fix our problems.  If we will obey God and trust His timing, He will work out our circumstances.

We often hear the instruction of God and simply do not believe it will work, or we do not read enough Bible to know what we are supposed to do.

Needing help is not shameful, but shame on us if we simply wallow in our mess, fail to be and do what God has planned for our future because we are too proud to draw nigh to Him and allow Him to do the fixing.

Relax, God only works with messes -- to a loving Father, you are no shocking exception.

Being too foolish to get close to God and listen is what we ought to fear.

Pastor