Day 19: No Condemnation

Be Always READY,

for HE is NEVER LATE.

You hear it loud and clear.

KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.

The introduction

that there is someone at your door.

You first make sure you are dressed appropriately.

You then took a quick look around your home to make sure

it is a wee better than messy.

You slowly go towards the

DOOR. 

But then you lookthrough the window panes

to see WHO it is.

Your HEART starts thumping,

because you KNOW that you are not ready to

RECEIVE THIS visitor.

It is JESUS! 

You KNOW JESUS doesn't care what clothes you are wearing.

You KNOW that JESUS doesn't care if your home is a mess.

Bur you KNOW that HE KNOWS your HEART,

and that is why your HEART is thumping.

Because you KNOW what is on your HEART,

and so you BELIEVE that it you are not PERFECT enough to

 RECEIVE JESUS.

For you KNOW too much about yourself,

as you are remembering that

you haven't

FORGIVEN that one person,

and that you

 gossiped about and judged other,

and that

you are not treating your body as a temple,

and that

you are ANXIOUS about EVERYTHING

because you haven't been praying about EVERYTHING ,

and

 you haven't CAST ALL your cares to JESUS.

Oh the list goes on and on,

but so does the

KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK,

even though JESUS KNOWS what is on your HEART.

But that is why

HE IS HERE.

What do you do?

Do you leave JESUS behind the closed door

UNTIL you get yourself

PERFECT ENOUGH

to RECEIVE HIM?

Hmm.

But JESUS IS THE DOOR.

And HE stands there and KNOCKS

to be with

PERFECTLY IMPERFECT you.

KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.

Have you OPENED THE DOOR in the past,

INVITING HIM into your HEART,

yet in this moment you are INVITING SELF CONDEMNATION

to overtake your HEART,

as you FORGET who you are IN JESUS.

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in CHRIST JESUS"

(Romans 8:1).

 Read that again.

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in CHRIST JESUS"

Have you been thinking about

 OPENING THE DOOR,

yet FEAR is keeping the DOOR locked

as you think that you will have to give up

 too much of what you love,

as you can't picture what your life would be

without doing what you love to do,

yet it is destroying you.

And THE FEAR of taking off the masks you wear

that hide the REAL you,

in FEAR that you would be REJECTED

if others saw the REAL you?

And THE FEAR that the secrets you keep,

which are eating you up alive,

yet you would rather hide than face the pain of facing yourself?

Oh when the WOUNDS of your HEART start KNOCKING,

that come dressed in FEAR.

BUT there is another

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.

JESUS IS NOT LEAVING,

for HE has come to give you ALL that you NEED 

and to RECEIVE all that you NEED to give HIM

so that you can

 REALLY LIVE FREE

of

CONDEMNATION

and

PERFECTION

and

FEAR of REJECTION.

For

who takes the time to

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK,

when HE can be somewhere else,

yet HE is CHOOSING to be with you

as HE stands at the DOOR OF YOUR HEART

INVITING you to

COME AS YOU ARE

so that you

can become so much

MORE.

For it is JESUS.

JESUS

who

KNOCKS

just because

HE wants to be in your LIFE

so you can have LIVE REAL LIFE.

KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.

JESUS IS CHOOSING you

in this very moment

to spend time with you.

Quite Simple.

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

 If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,

I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with ME"

(Revelation 3:20).

Just don't

OPEN THE DOOR

but keep it wide OPEN,

because once you let JESUS IN

you don't want to

LIVE WITHOUT HIM

and

HE doesn't want to

LIVE WITHOUT YOU

&

LIVE WITHOUT ME

&

LIVE WITHOUT EVERYONE ELSE.

KNOCK. KNOCK. KNOCK.

Because

"Everyone's invited to sit at the table.Don't matter if you're feeling fit or unfaithful,'Cause even when you're guiltyOur GOD is ableTo love youOn and on and on and onAll your life"*

OPEN THE DOOR

because you are

*"INVITED"

(listen to the song below)