We are ... God's Mess
We are a Mess, struggling daily against our sinful self and constantly trying to save ourselves. But our hope is that God saves us despite ourselves. He saves us not only from the mess we are born into, the mess that we wallow in but also from the mess we make of life as his Children. God Saves!!! It is who he is, it is what he does and the Good news of the Gospel isn't that we are cleaning up our messes, but that God has claimed us as His Mess. He has dealt with Sin completely through His Son Jesus Christ and he claims us by the killing of Sin and the resurrection through Baptism.
Living out who we are means living in Freedom. Not from God’s commands or will for our life, but from the crippling, tortuous burden of self-reliance, the horrible realization that you are helpless to save yourself. God’s Children have been freed from this and are free to serve, to live, to struggle, to succeed and yes to fail, because God Saves. And so we plan, we get involved with each other’s lives we step out in faith and rely on God’s grace all along the way.
