Recently I was teaching and the subject came up about being saved. I was so saddened to hear a young man express to me that he was not going to get saved until he knew he could live it out. I couldn’t help but feel the need to express to him that if that were the case, and he was able to get it together, why would he need a Savior?
We are all like that young man in one area or another of our lives. God may have asked you to do something, but you feel you are not qualified. Don’t you think God knew that before He called you to that specific task? And did you ever think maybe that’s why He called you?
Then there are those who don’t want to minister to people because they feel like hypocrites. You think that once you get well or once you get your family life together then you can go out and minister to people. But did you ever think that is the very reason God called you? We often forget that the times we are most apt to receive is when we are ministering to others.
The Word says in James 2: 1-26, John 6:37 and Revelation 22:17, “Come…”. I see no asterisks in my Bible that say *once you _____. I don’t see those in any of the Bibles I own. Do you know why? Because if we had to have it all together, be in the best condition, be financially set, or whatever level we felt we needed to obtain, there would be no reason for a Savior in our life. That would make us self-made men and women. We could do it all by ourselves. And yet, the ultimate prize would not be eternity in heaven, but would still be eternity in hell.
Regardless of our positions in life, we need a Savior. It is at the foot of the cross that we are all equals. It is our human intellect that gets in our way of selling out to Jesus. It is our self pious that attempts, and sometimes succeeds in convincing us that there is no need for a Savior. So don’t wait until you have it together. You will never have it together. The best position you can be in to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior is the position you are in today.