"Write Every Day Down"

This post was kind of inspired by Jason Upton's song "Write Every Day Down."  It said something that I had been wanting to hear for some time.  (Here's one video of the song--I was trying to find the one where he explains it, but couldn't.)  He says, basically, that there is a message in our days, in our lives, that if we let it, can tell the story of God. 

He talks about how, somehow it was significant for the Bible to include Abraham's failures; to include the fact that the apostle Matthew was a tax collector; that Moses had been a murderer as well as a deliverer.  Those parts of the story can't be ommitted, while we choose to keep the more "comfortable" parts.  The story God is writing is bigger than our concept of it.  Our attempts at rectifying our mistakes can often be just as misguided as the mistakes themselves; and they find redemption not in our ability to "straighten it out," but in God's ability to love us in the midst of our fallenness, and somehow use it for His purposes.  I'm not talking about not repenting; but trying on our own to fix our mess is naive at best, prideful at worst, and not real repentence. 

Thanks guys!  First post, short and sweet...