A long time youth ministry pioneer wrote a book a few years ago titled “Messy Spirituality” These few lines really helped me remember that what qualifies me to be His Child is Jesus…not my performance, not my efforts…
Spirituality isn’t about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfurnished-ness (pg.29)
…it turns out that what disqualifies you and me from “spirituality” – the mess of our lives and our crippledness – is what most qualifies us to be chosen by Jesus… Some of us actually believe that until we choose the correct way to live, we aren’t choose-able, that until we clean up the mess, Jesus won’t have anything to do with us. The opposite is true. Until we admit we are a mess, Jesus won’t have anything to do with us. (pg. 37)