Just as I am... warts and all

C.S. Lewis once wrote: God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us. Just sitting here thinking about that this morning. God just wants us, warts and all... he created us to be creatures of worship. Plumb wrote a song entitled God-Shaped hole.
This song echoes the thoughts of the mathematician Pascal when he wrote about the God Shaped Vacuum What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.

When we abandon the foolish pursuit of filling the hole with things that we think will satisfy us, and choose God, we will find that that place is filled and there is a joy over flowing. God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.
We first have to choose Him and let Him fill that void. C.S. Lewis also wrote that: Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy

We try in our human way to do everything, or buy everything that we think will make us happy... but what we don't realize is that when we turn to God and accept the offer of salvation, that is totally free by the way, we will find true satisfaction. C.S. Lewis also wrote: God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
He simply wants us... our lives, our worship, our all... The song Just as I am is one of my favorite hymns... that beautiful verse: Just as I am without one plea, but that thy blood was shed for me. And that thou bids me come to Thee, O Lamb of God, I come. I come.

Travis Cottrell added these words as a chorus to this song: I come broken to be mended. I come wounded to be healed. I come desperate to be rescue. I come empty to be filled. I come guilty to be pardoned by the blood of Christ the Lamb, and I'm welcomed with open arms, Praise God, Just as I am.
God simply wants us, warts and all... how amazing is that? When we accept Him, he begins to work in us... but it starts with a step in the right direction.
God wants you, Just as you are.