Matthew 11:28 (NKJV) 28 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
When I was a young adult and I was first introduced to the truth of salvation in Christ, it didn’t take me long to know that I needed Christ and I needed forgiveness for my sins.
But there was this nagging little thing inside of me that kept me from doing something about it. I thought that I had to clean myself up first, and then I could approach God and ask Him to make me His.
That kept me from doing what I knew I needed to do for quite some time. I stayed lost and unforgiven until one day I just pushed it all aside and ran to God.
This is more common than most of us realize. Even believers tend to wrestle with this sometimes. We make a bad choice, or a series of them, and we think we have to hide from God, afraid of what He thinks or what He will say if we approach Him.
But here’s what we need to remember. Jesus didn’t come and die for the righteous. He came and died for the lost… the sinner.
Mark 2:17 (NKJV) 17 When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Let’s be honest here. We don’t take one of our children who is well and healthy to the doctor. We take the one who is sick and in need of help.
So it is with us. We can’t hide ourselves away from God because we have done something wrong, committed sins that we think are too big for God to cleanse us from and forgive us for.
You see, once we go to Him, confess our sin and ask Him to forgive us, He forgives us. It’s that simple. There is no specific prayer we need to pray. There is no ritual we need to follow. There is not even a specific person we need to talk to about it.
We go directly to God and pour it out to Him. And do you know what happens when we do this? He forgives us. And that sin that we confessed to Him? He casts it far away from us. How far?
Psalm 103:12 (NKJV) 12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Stop trying to clean yourself up before you go to God. Come as you are. Let Him do the cleanup. He is much better at it than we are.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-315-0902
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