Three cheers!

I'm not always the most fun friend to have on facebook because I don't have really great one-liners and am pretty self conscious about trying a status update. My profile is mostly pictures and me commenting on other peoples status updates.

Today I came across a great status that made me smile. Part of what she said was that she was thankful for friends who allowed her freedom to not have it all together - "three cheers for life's messes."

I really appreciate it when people are honest, when they are able to laugh at themselves and learn from themselves.

I don't want to be one of those people who takes themselves too seriously. Just say, for example that I was one of those people fumbling with the door of the white van wondering why the key lock wasn't working...I would want to be able to laugh when I realized that the reason the door didn't open was because it wasn't my van!

On a more serious note, striving to be blameless as in Psalm 119:1 doesn't mean one is perfect or has to look like they are perfect. That is, as Paul would say in Phil 3:6, legalistic righteousness.

We will make mistakes as we go throughout our days, years and lifetime but God has come to complete in us that what we cannot do on our own.

It is fully God's purpose that we are blameless. It isn't a gift for just one or two exemplary people. He has called us to hope for a life with Him and desires that we all reach that goal. He knows that perfection in our sense of the word is not possible. If it were we wouldn't need Jesus to reconcile, and the Holy Spirit to live in us. We wouldn't need Christ to present us to God upon completion. Quite plainly, we wouldn't need God.
Maybe our efforts to become blameless is the process by which God knows that we want to be His possession; that we truly desire the inheritance He has for us.
Because we believe to the very core of our being that God has created us and Jesus has saved us from ourselves, Christ will keep us strong as we choose to trust God with our lives and live as forgiven people. He will fill us with His love, with knowledge, with insight so that we are able to use the wills He has given us and therefore make the “best” decisions, constantly understanding more fully what it means to be a follower of Christ, never taking our eyes off the prize, never being distracted or diverted (message) therefore resulting in glory to God.

Wow, that is my prayer.

So as we muddle through our days, not having it all together let's remember God's grace and power and huddle in for three cheers for life's messes.