Come As You Are

    We have all heard the phrase before 'come as you are', and while those exact words were not used in the Bible they certainly are true of pretty much everyone God called. It's something I find amazing about God, He picks the most unlikely characters to do His work and changes them into what they were meant to be. Jesus picked people that Pharisees looked down on and considered unrighteous, like Matthew the tax collector, but through the grace of the Lord and their faith in Jesus Christ they became righteous and faithful servants in eyes of Lord.
      I brought up the phrase 'come as you are' and how God takes people and makes them into something great, because there was a time where I thought God could never accept me as I was.  I am sure that most people who read my post are Christians, but I know not everyone is, I know that someone who reads this has felt the way I used to, I know they look at their life, the things they did, the lies they told, and the people they hurt and think 'God could never accept me, I'm not good enough.' But that's not true, in Isaiah 1:18 it says '  “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.'  This prophecy was fulfilled by Christ, his blood on the cross has allowed you to become the white snow, to become the wool, by accepting Jesus God no longer sees your past sin (Matthew 26:28; John 1:29).
       You don't have to worry about whether you are good enough for God at this exact moment, He will make you good, He will take your heart of stone and replace it with one of flesh (Ezekiel 36:26); He will give you the strength to resist the temptations that have held you down and burdened you, He will provide you with all that you need to do the task He has called you to, if you accept His son. Once you have genuinely accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior surrendering yourself to Him, and you begin to learn about God and the love God first gave you, you will begin to change. You will want to do things that honor and reflect Christ, and you will begin to hate the things of the world. You will find your mind preoccupied with the word of God, and you will have a desire to please Him. You can come as you are to Christ without fear, He will accept you and as you draw closer to Him He will free you from whatever it is that has you in bondage.

Romans 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Colossians 1:20
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.

Romans 8:1-39         
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.