Recently a great priest told me, “God loves you just as you are, and too much to leave you that way.”
This is the heart of the Father, mission of Jesus and passion of the Spirit. God, the Father, created you and loves you with His whole being – everything. “God is love” 1 John 4:8 & 16. He doesn’t require you to be perfect and clean to get His love or to earn His affection. He simply loves you with a reckless abandon. In that total love, the Father doe not settle for leaving you anything less than perfect and holy. He sees you with a vision that is perfectly clear. From the moment He thought of creating you, He had a vision of you adorned in pure white standing as a saint among saint before His Holy throne.
Jesus came to earth destined to die for you. He didn’t come to condemn you for your sins. He descended to walk with men and opened His heart because of the depth of His pure love. But, Jesus won’t accept to just leave you in a sinful state. He will reach out through your diseased sin to cure you of all that ails your soul. He spent His ministry on earth that His disciples could document His words to you. Stop reading the Bible and red letter words as just a book and understand that God is speaking in the voice of Jesus directly to you. His words and actions of the cross are meant to open the doors of your heart and of Heaven that you may find yourself standing before the Father, presented by Jesus, washed in His Blood as a saint.
The mission of the Holy Spirit is to teach you what greatness is and to lift you through that sanctifying grace to find yourself standing beside the throne of the King. He sees you as all the potential with which you were created. This is a Ghost Who doesn’t come to terrorize or spook. He is a Spirit of Ultimate Love and sanctifying fire determined to lead you and lift you to the saint the Father sees.
God will never force you to accept His great desire for your sanctification. He adores you as you are, with all your thorns and warts – even as the sinner you are. The Father, Creator and Controller of all that is above in the Heavens, upon the earth and under the earth desires that you freely choose to accept His love and mercy. He will do all in His considerable and Sovereign Power to help you bare the Truth and become all He envisions.
How will you answer?