"CHRIST JESUS CAME TO SAVE SINNERS OF WHOM I AM CHIEF." So confessed the apostle Paul, assuring sinners of every age, our God is full of compassion to us. He did receive sinners, and he received them as sinners. He does receive sinners still, and receives them notwithstanding their sins; yea, because of them. He receives the very worst of sinners, however worthless, despised by others, or peculiar their circumstances may be: sinners of every clime, at any age, without distinction. Every sinner that comes to Him is received, without exception. He receives them with all their sins upon them, however polluted, or however base. He receives them without anything to recommend them, without any reluctance and most graciously. He receives them to pardon all their sins, to cleanse them from all their defilement, to justify them from all charges, to heal all their wounds, to make them new creatures, to use them to his glory, to make them a peculiar people, zealous of good works on earth; and to glorify them with Himself in heaven forever. Beloved, if you feel that you cannot go to God as a saint, go to Jesus as a sinner. Are you doubting the character of your past experience? Go to Him, for He will receive you. Go to Him now. He will not cast you out.

For Meditation:
Christ receiveth sinful men,
Even me with all my sin;
Purged from ev'ry spot and stain,
Heav'n with Him I enter in.
Sing it o'er and o'er again;
Christ receiveth sinful men;
Make the message clear and plain,
Christ receiveth sinful men.