Come to the Father!

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9

What a promise! We confess, He forgives. I like the last part too. “All” unrighteousness. That’s incredible news isn’t it?

Abbey came to me earlier this week completely dirty from playing with her brothers. Her face was a disaster – tears mixed with sweat and dirt = picture.

My heart swelled with love for this amazing and playful little creature. She loves life. She often finds herself in over her head though, playing with her big brothers. She came for some comfort, but I wanted to do more than just pat her curly head.

I wanted to clean her up. She had no idea how dirty she actually looked. I saw perfectly her smudgy state. To the sink we went! Within minutes my sparky 3yr old was good as new.

I know this isn’t a perfect analogy, but few are. Our Father swells with love for you and I. If we come to Him, He will not reject us – no matter how filthy we’ve become.

If we love our filth, our refuse to acknowledge our need for soap, God won’t force it upon us. He gives grace to the humble. Humility is simply, “Embracing an accurate view of reality.” We are all sinners, fallen and broken. Stop believing that reality, humility evaporates.

You see, He’s not impressed with our ability to stay clean – particularly if that keeps us from seeing our need for Him. His goal on the cross was to reconcile us back to God, to bring us close into meaningful relationship through Jesus our righteousness.

Do you come to Him? Do allow the Father to pick you up, cleanse your heart and fill you with His Spirit regularly? Too often our picture of God is inaccurate – He wants us to see him as the Father – inviting all of us to come like children.