As I fed my 20 month old son pancakes this morning he could not help but to get his hands sticky from the syrup and before I knew it everything he touched he left with his sticky prints. My son does not mind get sticky while he is eating but he does not want his hands to be sticky afterwards so he tries to get it off by touching things and in his mind it makes sense. As a dad I know that his hands need to be washed so that he enjoy the freedom of playing without getting stuck.
So many times I get into sticky situations I can try to get out of the sticky situation but all I do is cause a bigger mess. I can try to ignore the situation but it does not change the fact that once I touch something else it will have the residue of what I am carrying. The only solution for me is to take my mess to God. Like I do with my son God cleanses me from what is trying to stick to me. It allows me to be free to enjoy living without the weights of my past.
Our past has a way of sticky to us and it causes our present to be frustrating and unenjoyable. When we give our lives to God, He takes all of our mistakes, wounds, issues, fears, and doubts and gives us a clean hands to grab a hold of our present. We can't throw away what as happened we can't changed our past but we can give it to our Father. His love allows us to be free to be us in our present. Don't let what is sticking to you keep you from enjoying life give it to God. Your new beginning starts right now.
