Come Anyway

Hebrews 4:16 — "Let us approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."

There's a particular kind of shame that keeps people out of prayer. It's the sense that you haven't earned the right to show up, that the distance between where you are and where you should be is too wide to cross today. So you wait. You'll come back when things improve.

The writer of Hebrews extends an open invitation to anyone who needs mercy, anyone who needs grace in the middle of whatever time of need they're currently in. The confidence he describes is grounded in the one who already made a way.

Hesitating at the door because you feel like you don't measure up is a quiet way of saying Christ's work wasn't quite sufficient. It was. Come anyway.