If you are a Christian there came a moment where at least for one split second of clarity you knew that you not only could come to Christ as you are but that as we are is how we have to come. We must set aside the desire to clean ourselves up before being washed in the Blood of the Lamb. That's why the song "Just As I Am" is such a great song for an altar call. We have to come to place where we know that we are helpless and powerless to be good enough, to clean ourselves up, that we have no righteousness, not a leg to stand on. We come and throw ourselves upon the mercy of the court and find that grace covers us. We begin to live in relationship with our Creator, and our lives begin to change. It's too easy sometimes to forget that all that change is a product of grace and not we ourselves. We didn't do it. We get used to living this spiritual life of relationship, but sometimes we just aren't feeling it. We seem to be in a bit of a drought while life rains around us. When that happens remember that we don't have to manufacture our spiritual life any more now than then. Broken? Dry? Come as you are. In fact no matter how long we've walked with God and how much He's changed us from glory to glory we should daily come as we were, free of self-righteousness with no leg of our own to stand on and letting His grace bring us in and cover us.
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