God will work with us to clean up any mess in our lives

Here are some good posts that when our lives are in a mess, God's by our side to help us clean it up.

• A list of Bible verses
• Cleaning up the mess with God's help. An excellent family-oriented post.
  • A five  year old might be overwhelmed to the point of tears by mum asking something simple like "Tidy your room". Yet with Mum's help the job gets done in no time.
  •  2 Cornithinians 12 9-10 But he (God) said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
• When you need God to Clean up your Mess by Susannah Barker.
• God can clean up your mess. Some encouraging words by Luis Joseph Castle ...

  Since God chose us from the foundations of the world, He didn’t wait for us to “clean up our act,” so to speak. He knew, in advance, what a mess we would make of our lives in many cases. Yet, God overlooked our sinful condition before coming to Christ foreknowing what a glorious transformation we would make one day. He also saw all sinful blunders we would commit – even after coming to Christ – as part of the process of transformation. Praise be to God that our Heavenly Father, continues to love us and patiently work with us despite ourselves, and the many, many times we fall short of perfection.

  Why? Because He foreknew that we would eventually experience complete regeration and Christ-likeness. He keeps His eye on the big picture. He saw ahead of time, the beautiful masterpiece our lives would turn out to be.

  Because He is the author of our book, He knows exactly how our story will end. He has already written the last chapter and it is thrilling! Surprisingly, it does have a happy ending. He has promised it will be a best seller among the saints and angels in heaven.

The song You Raise Me Up is about God lifting us on his shoulders to achieve more than we could ever on our own. Here's a recording by the Irish group Celtic Woman.

Here are the words...