Thinking about maybe coming to God, just maybe

I think people often hesitate coming to church until they get their lives in order. There is something about that I kinda respect, as if the hesitaters are sensing that God is holy. You wouldn't want to walk up to GOD with all of your junk, right? Those of us steeped in ChristianLand know that we cannot straighten out our own sin and must humble ourselves, blah blah--of course there is a correct theology. But the instinct to put on your best shirt, cover up your ugliness--that seems like a good instinct, human and right.

I think there might be something else to the "let me straighten up my life first" impulse. What if you have something in your life that you're not willing to let go of? And you suspect that God wouldn't be happy with it? If you think that GOD (all caps, head of the universe) would want you to change something, and you don't want to change it, then why come? It doesn't show much respect to approach someone falsely.

I guess that eventually you have to decide that God is bigger than your issue. That you really need Him or really want Him.

Isn't it good to remember, ChristianLanders, that He is worth more than anything? That's how we come to Him at first. That's how we always come to Him.

We don't straighten ourselves out. He knows we fall short, and He's made provision for us through Jesus. But when we come to Him, we have to come with all that we are. We have to mean it, or we are somehow saying He is less than Lord.