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Have you ever made a mess? Messier.

Have you ever made a big mess a big messier? That isn't trying to clean up the mess the mess got worse.

The mess that I made messier that will forever be a reminder as long as we live in our current home is when our black lab jumped up on a shelf in our basement and the unfinished part of our basement fortunately and knocked down three gallon cans of paint and two of the lids stayed on and one of them didn't.

You know how you keep paint around for too long it's like finally you throw it away it's like there's something about we can't throw it away yet then two years later you finally throw it away.

So it was one of those cans and it was oil based paint so like that thick, oozy thing you know so it's yellow. I don't even remember when we had yellow in our house and so the lid came off.

I heard the crash and went running in there and she's you know with you know yellow paint on her nose we got her out of the way and so the cans over and it oozed out to about this big.

It was just so thick and oozy I thought oh good at least it wasn't like splattered across the floor so the original mess was this big.

Then I started cleaning it up and it's about ten feet of the floor by the time I realized you don't wipe it it just went on and on and also now if you ever visit our home and go down to the unfinished part of our basement it looks like the entire gallon spilled out because I made a mess messier.

And that's kind of funny and you probably have your own story but when you make a financial mess messier you make a marriage mess messier you make a dating relationship mess messier you make your morality mess messier you make a professional mess messier an academic mess messier it goes on and on and on when you make a mess messier it just gets messier right.

And here's the reason we make mess this messier this is what we're going to talk about today in fact if you're not a church person religious person Christian person this is true for all of us so heads up.

Every mess that you make and every mess that you're involved in whether you marry into a mess you dated your way into a mess you inherited a mess every mess every mess comes with some bad options.

Every mess comes with some bad options borrow more lie bigger destroy the evidence hide you know make up a story send another text to make it sound like the first text really wasn't meant for them after you know there's always there are always some really bad options that come with every mess.

And these bad options essentially just make the mess messier so for the next few minutes I want to talk to you about her because I want to save you from her all right because some messes are unavoidable and if you're in the middle of a mess there's no way to go back and make the mess but with the mess you're currently facing whether it's relational financial academic professional whatever might be there are some really bad options that come with that mess and you are being tempted like we are all tempted to opt for something that's going to make your mess messier.

And to talk about how to avoid making a mess messier I want to tell you one of my favorite stories from the Old Testament if you have a Bible and want to follow along this is in first Samuel chapter 24.

Many of you if you grew up in church you're familiar with this story and your mind may race to the end but I hopefully hopefully you can just track with us through this story.

It is a story that takes place in about 1000 BC. It's the story of David before he becomes the king and the story actually begins when David was a little boy because as you may know one day the prophet Samuel showed up at his home and told his dad hey I'm going to anoint one of your sons as king and it turned out it was David and so David was anointed the king of Israel when he was a little boy but the problem was he was a little shepherd boy.

The problem was Israel already had a what a king that's right Israel already had a king so now they kind of had two kings they had to grown up adult king king saw and they had the little shepherd boy David who went back to tending his sheep well it's time went by David made himself known in the community one day he went as you know possibly went and visited his brothers who were serving in the army the Israel Israel's army and he saw Goliath in the valley and he thought to himself there's no much difference between that giant and a bear and a lion that I've killed and so David killed Goliath.

And when David killed Goliath he became an overnight sensation. I mean everybody knew David's name because he killed Goliath in front of the entire army and everybody was talking about David and not many people were talking about King Saul.

In fact Samuel who wrote this story for us says this he says in everything he did talking about David he had great success and when Saul King Saul saw how successful he was he was afraid of David.

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