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HT: I’ll Be Honest.
This is a response to a ‘Be Honest’ submission. I am re-posting some of the responses in hopes that they may help others who are going through the same struggles or have the same questions.
Anonymous,
This is of utmost importance my friend, your eternal soul is at stake here, please consider these truths that are given below with the utmost importance.
Realize this, the Lord says to come(Matt 11:28), not to clean yourself up, but to cry out now, this very minute for Christ to save you from yourself, not wait and think on it but as Isaiah 55:6 says seek the Lord while He may be found, because He may not be found an hour from now(Matt 24:44), your a step from life and death(1 Sam 20:3).
Think on this example below. If a man gets shot with a shotgun and is bleeding to death he will not go to the doctors office and wait outside of the door and try to fix himself before he comes in, he will run in as he is and the doctor will see him as he is. You must do the same, your pride, your selfishness is damning you and your bleeding to death. You must not try to put a false band-aid on it that will never work, but you must run into the doctor’s office empty handed now, as you are. Don’t wait and sit around and think about it but come now as disgruntled and messed up as you are. It does not matter what the other patients around you may think what matters is that your dying and there is a doctor, Jesus Christ, who is willing to receive you despite the absolute mess you are finding yourself in.
Again, salvation is found in Christ, not in us cleaning ourselves up so that we may be in Christ, but coming to Christ that He may heal us up.
Mark 2:17 – And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
James