I was trying to hide it. I knew he liked them but I also knew it would become a big mess, especially with us getting in the car. I thought I had succeeded when getting in the front seat but was quickly ratted out when I heard my 3 year old say, “I need the red!” He had spotted the king size Kit-Kat I thought I had inconspicuously gotten in the car. Being the cool Mom that I am, I broke him off a piece of my Kit-Kat and shared. We proceeded down the road and had gotten maybe a mile and my husband and son informed me that he needed his hands cleaned. I turned around to see the awaited mess. I decided to turn my flashers on at the upcoming stop sign and actually get out of the car and go clean him up due to the melted chocolate all over his fingers and face. The wet wipe was working wonders but I was having a hard time getting his mess cleaned up. I said something like, “Son, if you want me to get this mess cleaned up, you’re gonna have to be still!” I immediately felt it in my heart. I started laughing to myself and told him how he has no idea how much God has used him to preach to me.

How many times have I made a mess of things in my life and asked God to clean it up but when He starts I can’t be still? More often than what I would like to admit. I can’t keep my hands out of it from trying to clean it up myself or I’m complaining too much about how bad it hurts when it was all my own fault. What a mess I become with just trying to insert my own opinions and solutions to an All Knowing God! Oh the many times and even just this year He has pricked my heart with Psalms 46:10:

We are gonna have to learn how to give the mess to God to clean it up. He can handle it. He has an all purpose cleaner. Who are we to think we need to provide the cleaning solution? Just be still and let Him do His best work with grace and mercy and apply His peace into the situation. He truly can take a mess and turn it into a masterpiece.