God wants to lift you up, reveal your true spiritual identity, and unleash power and divine authority into your life. How God sees you has nothing to do with how “good” you are when you come to Him, or what you may or may not have done before. Your “packaging” doesn’t matter. Remember, Jesus surrounded Himself with foul-mouthed fishermen, tax collectors, prostitutes and other unvalued people of society.

God doesn’t require perfection in you or even goodness. He accepts you where you are just as you are because through intimate relationship, He develops your heart and mind, molding your character to achieve righteousness. You don’t achieve goodness, godliness, or Christ-like traits of yourself, you become endowed with these things from and through Him.