We can often think, we have often been taught, that we need to sort out our lives, get rid of our sin, become whole, before we come to Jesus, before we worship, before we pray, before we come to church. That if we are dirty we are not worthy to get anywhere near our Lord.
This is all wrong.
We do not get clean to come to Jesus, we come to Jesus to get clean.
We come sinners we leave Saints.
We are made into righteous Princes and Princesses.
We are given our inheritance, of a prince, the kingdom, for free.
We can sit with him, rest with him, praise him.
We can be in a relationship with him.
And what rite do we have? None, except for in him, we are made co-heirs of the kingdom.
(I can't remember where I heard this, think it was maybe Soul Survivor, so big Mike, or could have been Bill Johnson, or could have been Phil Porter, or anyone...! Not sure.
I am robbing it though and passing it off as my own.)
1 comment:
Your right we can only come to Jesus as dirty filthy rags or as a preacher said, dirty used tampons!
Then Jesus makes us clean through his death and resurection.
The question is of course how do we then act once we have been cleaned, do we go and roll in the mud again, or avoid the mud or try and clean the mud up? Or should we just point the muddied to Jesus.
BTW I Didnt know you were also a blogger Tom, mine can be found at www.beatthedrum.wordpress.com
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