Dirty Hands, or Dirty Hearts?
Have you got it together, or are you messed up? We can easily put ourselves in one of these categories. Family, exercise, relationships, faith, appearance - either we are messed up, or we’ve got it together. Many of us feel like a mess at some point, at least in one area of life. What causes this? What messes me, or you, up? Jesus puts the spotlight on the source of the human mess problem: the heart. Being messed up is an issue of the heart, not of the hands. Because of this, solutions that tackle dirty hands won’t help. We need a heart solution. So how do we get cleaned up? Mark doesn’t give us the answer. But he shows us Jesus: the kind, generous teacher who meets messy people with compassion.
