Wall-E

Have you seen the movie "Wall-E"?

 

That is one of Hayden's favorites. He loves that little robot.

 

The main theme of the movie is that humans have again made a mess of the earth, but this time it is a physical mess. Humans have created so much garbage that it covers the earth, and the humans are shipped off the planet to drive around in space until robots left behind clean it all up. Thousands of years later, one lone robot is left to continue the clean-up and try to get the earth back into a suitable state for living.

 

In Genesis 6 one man caught God’s attention when the world was out of control. Out of all the people that were on the earth, only one man is mentioned as being worth saving. “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God,” from Genesis 6:8-9. Have you ever noticed that it is always the people who walk with God who find His favor? There definitely seems to be a connection to the fact that several of the great heroes of the Bible were signified as righteous men who walked with God. 

 

Noah did not try to fix or clean up the mess himself. He merely listened to God, built the ark, brought aboard the animals, and waited for the rain to start. He endured extreme ridicule as he was building the ark, too, as he talked to people about this “rain” that was coming soon. People had never seen rain before Noah’s time as the streams of the earth fed it and kept it nurtured. So, Noah endured all that was laid before him by God and just simply listened. And, since Noah listened to God, God used him to help clean up the mess that had been made on the earth. 

 

We are called to do the same as Noah. Have you ever thought that you were just too dirty or too much of a mess for God to clean up? Have you tried to clean it up yourself instead of just bringing it straight to Him? On several occasions God cleaned up much bigger messes than you and I could ever even imagine. “But”, you say, “You do not realize the things that I have done!” No, you are right.  I do not know the things that you have done. But, God does, and He loves you anyway. He does not ask you to clean up first and then come to Him. Instead, in Matthew 11 He says, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” 

 

Jesus wants you to come to Him right now, just as you are, full of your messes, and give it all to Him. Let Him do the clean up job. It is His specialty.