Deal With It

Anytime you are going to serve, you are going to have messes!  
Some of the most enjoyable dishes, even carry the need to be cleaned up.


I remember a visiting family's mother pointing to their child's finished but dirty plate saying “Deal with it.”

It was another way of saying, “Go and wash the plate up, and then put it away.”

When it's a plate, you can do this, but when it is a life, grace and wisdom are needed. It would be so sweet if there was some formula to follow in serving those who are hurting or needy.


This is another aspect of learning to humble our hearts and mind, under the yoke of Jesus. Learning to "hear Him" for the next step.

You can not lean on your own understanding.

When we seek to serve Christ, not all want whats served.

You can not expect a heart without Christ, to know anything about the freedom of a pure and clean life.  There are also times, when those who are struggling with vision will cause messes with their words and attitudes.  

Sometimes these souls are in our lives for the Lord to expose our own messes to clean up (ie anxiousness, fear, lack of patience and love etc.)  It is especially, when we do not have control, that our Father teaches us the importance of letting LOVE serve.

A simple cleansing of the heart is needed.

Our Heavenly Father's still small voice whispers, “Deal with it.”


“I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.” (Ps. 57:2) The beautiful old translation says, “He shall perform the cause which I have in hand.” Does not that make it very real to us today? Just the very thing that “I have in hand”---my own particular bit of work today, this cause that I cannot manage, these things that I undertook in miscalculation of my own powers---this is what I am asking Him to do “for me,” and rest assured that He will perform it. “The wise and their works are in the hands of God.” ~Havergal


“The Lord will go through with His covenant engagements. Whatever He takes in hand He will accomplish; hence past mercies are guarantees for the futrue and admirable reason for continuing to cry unto Him.” C.H. Spurgeon

The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
~Oswald Chambers