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Just as I am

Just as I am.  Perhaps some of the most freeing words ever uttered.  There are not many people who would take us just as we are.  But God does.  He takes us from the gutter of our life and cleans us up.  He doesn't ask that we clean up first, he takes us...just as we are. 

But we don't take us just as we are.  We allow a myriad of things to keep us from being accepted by God and even by others.  I heard a good analogy the other day.  It's like when we are taking our cars to get cleaned and we clean them first!  Or we are having a house cleaner come in but we clean the house first!  But with God we don't have to do that.  In fact it would be better if we didn't clean up - or attempt to - first because he is the greatest and bestest (yes, I said bestest) cleaner upper EVER!  He takes us, GLADLY, just the way we are.  What a gift, if we will accept it. What a gift, if we will actually just come to him from the place we are at. 

Just as I am
BONUS!  Just as I am/I surrender all

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