come ye sinners
come ye sinners, poor & needy, weak & wounded, sick & sore
that's not exactly what you want to put on your resume is it? can you imagine reading that on someone's tinder bio? we don't like looking or feeling needy. we want to feel in control and even when we don't feel in control we attempt to maintain the illusion that we are. how comforting that jesus knows our frame. we can come to him and be so very honest about the state of our brokennness, how out of our depths we feel. and you know what? he moves toward us.
jesus stands ready to save you, full of pity, love & power.
jesus said that he didn't come for the healthy but the sick. so he sees us poor, needy, weak, sick and he says, "there's my people." hallelujah! what a relief! in a world where we need to have it all together so we can get the raise, promotion, marriage, house jesus says that we will never have it all together and that's the sort of people he is here for.
come ye thirsty, come & welcome god's free bounty glorify. true belief & true repentance every grace that brings you nigh.
i think of the woman at the well. ashamed, living in sin, in need. jesus welcomed her in. jesus saw her deeply and said, "you are mine. you are why i've come." she believed and repented and her past no longer defined her. it couldn't warp the love of her healer.
i will arise & go to jesus, he will embrace me in his arms. in the arms of my dear savior, oh there are 10,000 charms.
jesus has his arms outstretched ready to embrace. he wraps us up. we who have walked away, spat in his face, broken promises, fallen into sin again and again. he's not ashamed of us though. like the father of the prodigal son, jesus makes much of us as we come to him. he shouts that his child is here. he prepares a feast for us! here we find ourselves welcomes, forgiven, loved, at home.
come ye weary, heavy-laden, lost & ruined by the fall.
raise your hand if you're tired. or confused. if you look at what happened in charlottesville and you can't imagine that sort of hate existing. if you hear of another miscarriage and you wonder why it happens. if you're tired of the way things are and long for how things should be. our lives reflect a disconnect. they show that things are not as they once were. we are relationally incapable to love without jealousy or shame or bitterness or annoyance. un-forgiveness lingers over us. sin tempts us. we give in. as paul said, we do what we don't want to do and don't do what we want to do. yes, friend. things are awry.
if you tary til you're better you will never come at all.
we don't have to get our act together. jesus came for the broken-hearted, the screw ups, the exhausted, the promise breakers. he came to prodigal sons and daughters, to those sneaking away to a well hoping no one will know their sin. he has come for us. so go to him. go to the who knows and welcomes you. come to the one who is good and true and let him quench your thirst, heal your wounds, dry your tears.