Come as You Are – Closing Thoughts

Greetings Dear Reader,

There is an aspect of sadness, pain, and longing that makes us human.  What I think we do not realize is that it also is what makes us part of the divine.  We are created in God’s image.  I realize not everyone believes that but I do.  God feels sadness, pain, and longing and every bit of it is for his creation.

The bottom line is that we need joy, healing, and completion.  We need love, acceptance, and belonging.  In the honest dark of night when the lurkers close in on us we know we need something beyond ourselves.  We are unable to make the journey out of the sadness and pain on our own.

Since we cannot heal or help ourselves we need to come to the one who can.  I realize that following Christ seems very exclusive and arrogant.  It is, however, an exclusivity that is open to everyone; an all-inclusive exclusivity if you will.  One need not do anything to improve in order to come to Christ.

I know that I need to do so every morning.  My life never works when I do not.  When I move away from Christ or fail to follow his lead the pain and longing resurface.  The enduring rest that is in Christ is all that sustains me. 

We all have to come as we are.  I must leave behind any pretense that I can rescue my own soul.  It is in Christ alone that the rescue is found.  I must lay down my hurt, lay down my heart, and come as I am.  You are welcome to come with me Dear Reader.

Come As You Are – David Crowder

Come out of sadness from wherever you've been

Come, brokenhearted; let rescue begin

Come find your mercy, O sinner, come kneel

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal

Lay down your burdens

Lay down your shame

All who are broken

Lift up your face

O wanderer, come home

You're not too far

So lay down your hurt

Lay down your heart

Come as you are

There's hope for the hopeless

For all those who've strayed

Come sit at the table

Come taste the grace

There's rest for the weary

A rest that endures

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't cure

Lay down your burdens

Lay down your shame

All who are broken

Lift up your face

O wanderer, come home

You're not too far

So lay down your hurt

Lay down your heart

Come as you are

Come as you are

Fall in His arms

Come as you are

There's joy for the morning

O sinner, be still

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can't heal

Lay down your burdens

Lay down your shame

All who are broken

Lift up your face

O wanderer, come home

You're not too far

So lay down your hurt

Lay down your heart

Come as you are

Wishing you joy in the journey,

Aramis Thorn

Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store."  ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)