What God Wants

God wants your heart before your musical ability.
God wants your heart before your schoolwork.
God wants your heart before your change in actions.
God wants your heart before your ministry.
God wants your heart before anything you can do for Him.

What God wants is not religious actions but a righteous heart.
One thing that you cannot give him, but that He can give you.

Odd, hu?
What God wants is what we cannot give, but what we're given.
Funny how we try to hold onto what little we have.
He wants our dirty hearts, our bad actions, our horrible minds, our disgusting thoughts, our embarrassing habits.
He wants them so that he can make them pure.
We give him crap, garbage, the stuff we're ashamed of and disappointed in, the stuff we don't list on a resume, and hide from those closest to us, and he changes them into something more beautiful and extravagant than we could have ever imagined they would be originally, and it was out of our degraded rejected pile. He gives it back to us, so that we can give it back to Him.

"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." - 2 Corinth 5:21