God is not our maid

Have you ever cleaned up a mess, only to have someone come behind you and dirty it up as fast as you clean it up? I have 3 sons and it seems that as quickly as clean up, they mess up. It is so frustrating. To spend all that time cleaning, only to have it dirtied is an aggravation. But also to have those you love not care about the time and energy it took to clean it up, makes you feel unappreciated. Not to mention, the carelessness of just making a mess and thinking someone else will take care of it. And why is it that we think it is okay to mess up what someone else has cleaned up without any concern for what it cost them to do so?
It was in the thinking through of these things that I began to get more and more aggravated. That is, until the Lord convicted me of doing the same things. Perhaps not with the house, but certainly with my heart. God, in His grace, sent Jesus to clean up my mess. And as quickly as He cleans me up, I seem to dirty myself up again. Careless and with lack of concern of what it cost Him, I choose to step into the muck and mire and track it around, assuming that God will come again and clean it up, forgive and make it right. After all, that is what He does.
Don’t you know that it grieves His heart to see the lack of gratefulness and the bulk of carelessness that comes out of us. He cleans us up and we just dirty us up again-assuming He will just be the maid and clean us up again. While He is a God that cleanses, restores and redeems. Do we really want to be children that just assume God is our maid. That assume that we deserve the right to do as we please, mess up and then have Him come behind had clean us up over and over again…making light of His sacrifice and the gift of His Son. We trample His gift of grace when we just continue in sin so that grace may abound (Romans 6). He sent Christ to restore and cleanse and we should do all we can to keep ourselves from the stain of sin, not track it up all the more. God is not our maid. He is our Savior.
ALL FOR YOU