The Messy Room

Pastor Eduardo asked me, “Do you see a name over this door?” There was nothing written over the door. I said no. He said, “This room is ‘The Messy Room.’” Then he opened the door to this… (see photo). Then he said “I told the congregation that the Lord asked him, “What do you need?” And Eduardo answered the Lord, “We need everything (Eduardo emphasizes with a karate chop gesture)!  

Eduardo continues the story with me:

“The Lord sends someone to me and they ask me, ‘Do you need ________ ?’ And I say, ‘Si! Ges! We NEED that!’ And we put it in The Messy Room.”

E continues:

“Someone else calls me and they say, ‘Do you use __________ __________ ?’ And I tell them, ‘Ges!! We NEED that!!’ And we put it in The Messy Room.”

E goes on - same thing:  

“Ges!!! We NEED that!!!” Pastor E looks me in the eye, closely and with a bit of a mischievous smile curling up on either side, “It doesn’t matter what they ask me, I say, ‘GES!!! We NEED that!!!’ And we put it all in here… and God moves it all out. Then He fills it again… and He moves it out… over and over and over..”



When you don’t have anything, you need everything.

I’ve been in this room many times. It’s never the same… and it’s always messy! A perfect mess. Praise God!

Then I think about my heart… it’s always messy, a perfect mess. God fills it up… God moves it out…

I think about the trips we take, the teams that go, the medicine, food & supplies we take, the Cuban people we engage… it’s always messy! But God opens the door to THE MESSY ROOM… His messy room in you and in me… “Ges! We NEED that!” He fills it up… He moves it out!