Psalm 62:8 “Trust in God at all times, you people, pour out your heart before Him, God is a refuge for us.”
Jesus invites us to come to Him for refuge and turns no one away that truly seeks Him. John 6:37 “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means as cast out.”
It is a privilege that Father God and His Son want us communicating with them, out of a close friendship with both; formed out of reading and believing their words in the Bible. I cannot have salvation unless I believe God’s Word and accept Him into my heart. As Jesus is pure and does not sin, so must I not pursue wrong doing, but rather in His strength put aside self-focused attitudes and interests, and instead come to Jesus freely for every need, and to be changed by putting aside every character trait that is not as Jesus. We cannot of ourselves change our sinful self, but Jesus and the Holy Spirit, when invited in to our heart, can and will. As a Christian we have victory over sin in the life by asking Jesus to do so, and trusting Him, to fulfil His every word. Jesus was humble! By Jesus and the Holy Spirit, we can be changed and in humble trust in Jesus believe and receive His promises. Glorious thought and reality!
Let us not become so busy that God does not have access to the mind and heart, and cannot therefore reveal His love and caring plan to us, or be to us a refuge. Jesus will answer as upon our knees we pray for forgiveness of every wrong doing, as well as invite Him to show to us, clearly His beautiful life of sinlessness, selfless love and sacrifice. In contrast as we love Jesus more and have a relationship with Him, the hideousness and insidious workings of sin in all lives, promoted by Satan’s crafty deceptive ways will become evident and abhorrent.
Jesus will surely answer when we pray, ‘please open my mind and heart to You.’ Psalm 18: 35 “You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has made me great.”