A friend was recently told, after making a very bad decision, that she could hang out with a person she considered to be a friend "if real change is coming." That is, IF she had stopped sinning. There are so many things wrong with this I don't know where to begin. Setting aside that we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Jesus didn't tell the Samaritan woman at the well that they could talk "after she got herself together." He didn't promise Zaccheaus a dinner date "after he stopped his thieving ways." Jesus didn't tell Thomas to "sort out his doubts and talk to him later." No. Jesus said, "Come. Touch. See. Put your fingers in my side." Jesus took their sin and doubts head on and friended them "while they were yet sinners." Jesus meets ALL of us right where we are. As I try to be more like Him, and gloriously fail, I want to continue to sit in the muck and failures of people I love (and they in mine) because that is the best way I know to represent Him. And the best way to truly love.
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