Come to Jesus

"It does not matter how we come to Christ, if we only come. No matter how inadequately and imperfectly we come, His love and His arms are open to receive us.  There is a double lesson here.  It means that we do not wait to ask the help of Christ for life until our motives, our faith, our theology is perfect; we can come to Him exactly as we are. And it means that we have no right to criticize others whose motives we suspect, whose faith we question, and whose theology we believe to be mistaken. It is not how we come to Christ that matters; it is that we should come at all, for He is willing to accept us as we are, and He is able to make us what we ought to be" (Barclay on Matthew, vol. 1, pp. 349-350).