A prayer to come to Jesus just as you are.

By Rachel Claire Cockrell, read by Leah Martin.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.

I've not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Luke 531 through 32. We need Jesus because we're sinners. This isn't confined to the small, easy

to fix sins. It applies to all sins. We put so much pressure on ourselves but

the truth is that we need Christ. We need him because we absolutely cannot live the way we're called to live on our own.

We shouldn't look down on lost people for sinning.

That's the most hypocritical thing we could do. We can

never forget that we too were once lost. We too were once drowning in our own sin and I don't know about you but I still

struggle to keep my head above water every day. We're broken, we are

sinful. Jesus comes in and changes that. If we had the capability to change it ourselves, then we wouldn't need him. He wouldn't have had to die on the cross. None of that is necessary. If we can fix ourselves on our own.

The thing that's so wonderful about Jesus is that he changes something fundamentally

inside of us. It's a change that can't be described in words. It can only be experienced. You don't have to

change for Jesus. He is the one who changes you.

Even those of us who have accepted Christ aren't perfect. We need to cut each other and ourselves some slack.

We need to recognize that, yes, we have to live to a certain standard to be

Christians, but that Jesus is about forgiveness first. He forgives us before he changes us and then he continues to forgive us over and over again.

We have to remember that we're only human. We have to remember why we need Jesus, why his sacrifice was necessary.

We have to remember that true change of heart requires supernatural intervention, not human

intervention. We have to remember not to get things in the wrong order. Jesus first.

Accepting Christ is the first and most important step.

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