75. He's Free

Revelation 22:17

Dang it, you did it again. You didn’t want to. You said you wouldn’t. You took steps to prevent it. You set up boundaries, but then you went around them all and did it again. What now? See, all of a sudden you’re feeling empty inside. You hate this thing you did, but after all this time, it just makes you feel nothing. The more time passes, you just start to feel dead and cold on the inside. For a while there, you were feeling close to the Lord, but now all of that seems like some kind of distant memory. You’re dry and immovable in your heart. How could you possibly go to God right now? You can’t, right? I mean, if you went to God, you’d have to drum up all of this repentance and sorrow, right? You’d have to feel all broken and remorseful; but what if you don’t feel that stuff right now? You can’t go to God pretending to be all contrite and penitent, because He knows if you’re insincere, so what in the world are you supposed to do?! Here it is: go right now to Jesus anyway. I know you feel cold and empty and you don’t feel anything like the kind of repentance that seems holy or whatever, but just go to Jesus and tell Him all of that straight up. At the very end of the whole Bible, Jesus says, “Whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.” See, you get all of Jesus for free. It doesn’t take repentance. It doesn’t cost true and holy sorrow. Jesus will supply that. It costs you nothing. You just have to be willing. Why not go to Him right now?