For parents and grandparents out there, you can probably relate to a child getting filthy dirty and then running to you to be cleaned up. Imagine you little child running to you with a filthy diaper, and you refusing to clean that child up. That would not happen.
This analogy was given at Bible Study last week, and it is a visual reminder of what God does for us when we run to Him. Just as we could never imagine letting our child sit in filth, God would never say no to us when we come to him with all of our shortcoming, faults, shame, guilt...
God sent his son, Jesus, to wipe us all clean as new snow. He wants to clean up all of the areas in our life that are dirty and unpresentable to God. There is nothing we could do to cause Him to turn away disgust, except to not ask for forgivness and choose to live in our sin.
I waited patiently for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand. - Psalm 40:1,2
If you are keeping yourself from God because you think you are not worthy, then you don't know the mercy and love that God wants to shower you with. The verse says it all. When we turn to the Lord, he lifts us up out of the pit and sets us on high ground. He wants you to come, covered in filth, so that He can clean you up. You don't have to do the work, He will work inside of you. The clean up process does not happen over night, that is why we have to wait patiently and be in tune with His Word. The Psalm goes on to say in verse 3:
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.
Let Him put a new song in your heart today!
Sandy
