Welcome to Our Mess

Part 2 of the Easter series, “Suffering and Resurrection.” When guests enter our home, we love to clean house. But the home they see isn’t often reflective of how we normally live. More often, our homes can me messy, but that’s not the picture we typically wish to show others. In the same way, even as Christians, our lives can be a mess and we don’t want anyone to see. But as Jesus demonstrated so many times as he ministered to others on his way to the cross, God wants to enter the home of our hearts with a sign out front that says, “Welcome to Our Mess!” It is only Jesus who can clean the impurity of our hearts. But we must first recognize our need to be cleansed before inviting him to enter.