Jesus is a man and a God. He has emotions, He has feelings and He has desires for you and I. Often times people do not have the close walk with Jesus that I enjoy, because they don't think that Jesus has the time for them, or they don't think that they are worthy of His love. Many people struggle for years to grow closer to Jesus. God has done everything to redeem men and draw them close, but like beggars we are hungry and wandering around in plain sight of the food that we so desperately need.
It makes me fill up with tears as I write this. For so many years I sinned so much that I did not feel worthy of the love of Jesus and His most Holy Father. I have struggled so many years with sin that I felt I could't be friends with a Holy God or His Son. Jesus spoke very clearly to me one day when I read the account of the woman who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears. Jesus told me that she was a prostitute and that her need was so great that she burst into a dinner party and humbled herself and wept at his feet. She cried, she wiped his feet with her hair and then anointed his feet with very expensive perfume. Jesus told me that not only did He accept her tears and repentance but He also allowed the perfume that was bought from her life of sin to anoint His feet. Jesus showed me that He does not have an issue with sin or sinners or even money that sinners gave Him, but it is us through our pride that won't humble ourself and accept His love.
Over the years I have grown closer and closer to Jesus. Over time I have managed to walk out of a lot of sin. Today I like to co--labor with Christ and do what He wants me to do for Him. To take the hand of Jesus is not weak, to take the hand of Jesus is not an action that is going to be refused by Jesus. Jesus was a man that was known to love the sinners. The woman that washed Jesus feet was so broken and so desperate that she came to Him in a Pharisees house and even gate crashed the dinner! The more broken you are, the more of a sinner that you are, the more Jesus has answers for you.
If you are like me, and you have been forgiven much, when you grab a good hand of Jesus and not let it go you will really love Him much.
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