I think this is easy to forget. Sometimes we feel so bad about ourselves and our prior choices, that we think we are unworthy to go to church, or to worship God, or even to pray. We forget that not a single person in this world is perfect. We have all made mistakes. We might assume that some are worse than others, but that judgment should be entirely left to our loving Heavenly Father.
Church is not just for those perfectly seeming people that we might know and think about. You know the ones I mean! The ones who are always there, always serving, always involved. The ones who outwardly seem to be practically perfect in every way.
Sometimes, it takes everything we have to roll out of bed, grab the first thing we find in the closet and manage to drive to church.
Sometimes it is all we can do to face other people in our own brokenness.
Sometimes we feel like we wear a very large tattoo that says SIN across our forehead.
But church and worship are very much for each one of us. It doesn't matter what place we are at in our lives. It doesn't matter what we have done in the past, or even what mistakes we are making now. What matters the most, is that we want to change our heart and nourish our spirits. We want to become.
When you see someone who looks differently than you do, someone who is all alone or separated from the group, someone who is quite and not participating. Someone who is hurting, someone who is scared, someone who is crying, someone who is struggling, someone who is not you.
Welcome them in with open arms and open hearts.
We should be a sanctuary for any and all who are seeking the Saviors love. We should be a healing shoulder and a loving arm. We should be truly Christian in our actions and not just in our professed beliefs.
We need to be a resting place for the weary and a sanctuary for the broken.
Remember that we are all Children of God and he loves each and every one of us.
He knows you.
He loves you.
He wants you to return to him.
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