You Do Not Need to Be Spotless
The water is scalding, and your skin is raw, but the shame won't wash off. You are scrubbing at a stain that isn't there, trying to cleanse a failure that the light has already forgotten.
Jesus asked Peter three times if he loved him — not to punish the denial, but to heal it with a new command: go and do something else. Your worth is not measured by how clean you can make yourself, but by the fact that you are still standing.
The old order of your guilt is passing away; everything is being made new right now, even this wet, broken moment. You do not need to be spotless to be held.
Drawing from
John 21:15-17, Revelation 21:1
Verses
Revelation 21:1
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