“I come broken to be mended
I come wounded to be healed
I come desperate to be rescued
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”
(This stanza is a bridge between verses of “Just As I Am,” as sung by Travis Cottrell.)
“I come desperate to be rescued…”
Do not hold against us the sins of past generations;
may your mercy come quickly to meet us for we are in desperate need.
Help us, God our Savior, for the glory of your name;
deliver us and forgive our sins for your name’s sake. Psalm 79:8-9 New International Version
“We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God.
Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.”
Philip Yancey, quote from The Jesus I Never Knew
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“I come empty to be filled…”
You always show me the path of life. You will fill me with joy when I am with you.
You will make me happy forever at your right hand. Psalm 16:11 New International Reader’s Version
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“I come guilty to be pardoned…”
But Lord, my sins! How many they are. Oh, pardon them for the honor of your name. Psalm 25:11 Living Bible
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue,
our sin with His salvation,
our guilt with His grace,
our badness with His goodness.
The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer.
Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living
but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
Tullian Tchividjian
