Less Messy!

This sermon was preached as a Kids Talk in St. Columba's - Sunday 20th at 9:30 Family communion

Father God we thank you that you call us all to serve you, help us to change to be like you in Jesus Name Amen.

In the curatage I have loads of books Big thick books, wee thin books, Books about God, the world, computers, and books of fiction.

Today I would love to tell you about a great character, one who is one of my all time favorite fictional hero’s ... Mr Messy ... this contains spoilers ... I hope you don’t mind

Mr Messy lives in a messy house

which has a messy Garden

but he is quite content with his messy life

Until he meets a couple of people

Mr Neat and Mr Tidy who are sorting out the garden of a neighbour

They offer Mr Messy their Services

Mr Messy reluctantly agrees

They tidy his house, his garden and basically show him that things can be different

Now the last thing that they do is sort Mr Messy out with a bath

and then Mr Messy at the end of the story laughs and says to Mr Neat and Mr Tidy that he shall have to change his name as he is no longer Messy.

Mr’s Neat and Tidy were able to show Mr Messy that there was a different way to live

When Mr Messy saw this he was able to try and live less messily

Turning from the Mr Men Story to the true story of Jesus

Throughout the Gospels, the Good News of Jesus

Jesus shows us ways in which we, who are messy, - all of us wether we are kids, young people, adults every single one of us

Remember we do wrong things, think wrong things or even when we don’t do what we should

But there is Good News we, like the story of Mr Messy, can change, when we look at God, when we try to be like him then we can indeed clean up our lives, when we get help from the Holy Spirit and from Christian Friends we can change and live lives which are more like him.

So the Challenge today is to ask ourselves ... where are the messy parts of my life? where are the parts I would l would like to do better at?

With these questions, and acting on the answers we can start to be more like Jesus!