When you’re not who you want to be, you don’t feel like you should be around God, right? If you’re less or worse than the person you think you ought to be by now, you feel like you can’t really go to the Lord. You can’t pray, you can’t crack open your Bible and you don’t really want to be around any Christians. Why is that? We all feel this impulse, by the way. If you know what I’m talking about, (and you do) then you’re not alone. I was talking to a friend recently who said that he had gotten out of the habit of spending time with Jesus every day simply because he had sinned and was too ashamed of himself to face the Lord. Now, on the one hand, that’s the most natural thing in the world to feel; but on the other hand, it makes no sense. That’s a feeling that’s got to go. You see, if you think you have to have it all together to hang out with Jesus, you’d better get prepared for some massive disappointment. As long as you are breathing air on the green side of the grass, you aren’t going to have it all together. You are going to struggle, sin and fail. You won’t be strong enough to make it and you won’t reach your potential. That doesn’t mean you’re not changing and it doesn’t mean you won’t grow, but it does mean you need to learn to accept something true about yourself: You won’t go up to Jesus. He came down for you. He didn’t say, “Come to me, all you who are awesome.” He said, “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened.”
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment