By Rachelle Chase
Rachelle Chase has been
married to her high school sweetheart for 12 years and has 2 boys. She lives in
NH where she is a homeschooling mom, professional photographer and with her
husband runs a not-for-profit youth center that she and her husband started.
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Have you ever watched a 2-year-old eat an ice cream cone outside on a hot day?
If you have, you are
picturing the complete and utter mess that comes about half way through that
dessert!
The ice cream is melting
down his face, and the sticky mess is all over his chubby little fingers!
If you have ever been a
random spectator of this, you have probably thought.
Oh. my. Goodness.
That kid is a hot mess!
What is that car going to
look like on the way home?
And that shirt? Well you
might as well throw it away!
Now picture the same
scenario. But this time? You are the mother.
A warm day is finally here
after a week of rain, and you are taking your little boy...the absolute love of
your life...out for a treat. A special treat that doesn't just happen every
day.
Same exact scenario, but
for some reason, you aren't thinking for one second about his shirt, sticky
face or messy car!
You can not believe how
his big blue eyes are sparkling with joy!
You don't remember ever
realizing how much he looks like his daddy when he laughs.
And you love that those
sticky fingers are reaching for your face!
This is your baby. And you
love this boy more than life itself.
Cleaning up a mess is
nothing at all to you, and you would gladly clean him up a million times just
to see this look on his face!
I was thinking of this in
relation to my Heavenly Father.
Sometimes as I am going
through my life, I think...wow. I have really made a mess of this situation!
Or, maybe...I have really
made a mess of my life!
What is God thinking of me
right now? How can I even pray? He probably can't even stand to look at me
right now!
And in those times, I back
away from God.
While there are times in
our lives that sin separates us from a close relationship with God, I think
that usually He is looking at us just like we would look at our messy sticky
little boy.
Maybe he is shaking his
head, laughing and saying...there's my girl again! Making a mess! I love to see
her laugh like that! I love her so much.
I love how 1 John 3:1 puts
it when it says “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we
should be called the children of God.”
See that? He is our Father
who is lavishing love all over us!
Crazy love.
So the next time you are
tempted to back away from your Father after a time where you think that you
have made way too big of a mess?
Stop and think it over.
Realize that your Father
is totally in love with you and does not mind one bit cleaning up after your
mess.
And instead of backing
away - run to Him.
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