THANKFUL

Chatting with Jesus
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Lord, you are our good Heavenly Father who bids all people everywhere to come to you. If you called only the ‘perfect,’ or those relentlessly trying to become ‘perfect’ before coming to you, everyone would be left out. You send your invitation, then stand waiting to wrap your arms around any who respond. Your invitation is simple: “Come to me. And bring all your flaws, imperfections, sins, shame, guilt, fears, everything that weighs you down and let me take care of them. Just come join the family of Christ followers.”

Like me, Lord, all who come to you must recognize their need of you. All other ‘religions’ require their followers to do good things to obtain your approval. They work themselves to the point of exhaustion, fearful they may overlook something that hinders them from being good enough for you. I lived like that for years. That’s no way to live.

With you, Lord God, there is no need to beg. As a Christ follower, Jesus revealed your perfection and our inability to be good enough. Jesus did for us what we are incapable of doing: he paid our sin debt when he willingly went to the cross on our behalf.
Our part in all this? Believe. Forgive ourselves and accept God’s grace.

“For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son [Jesus] and believe in him [as Savior who took our sins] should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.”— John 6:40 (NLT)

Jesus, your words, not mine. But I agree! You are who you say you are and did for me what you said you did for me.

From a former yet redeemed prodigal I gratefully say,”Thank you Jesus” Amen.