Spurgeon on "just as I am."

Dear Readers,

Do we have to fulfil some conditions before God can receive us in mercy?

Read Spurgeon on how the dove of Noah's days of the flood was pulled into it, unworthy though she be of herself. That's God's mercy, unconditional, "just as you are, without one plea."

"Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity. Come thou to Him just as thou art. "Return, thou backsliding Israel." He does not say, "Return, thou repenting Israel" (there is such an invitation doubtless), but "thou backsliding one," as a backslider with all thy backslidings about thee, Return, return, return! Jesus is waiting for thee! He will stretch forth His hand and "pull thee in" — in to Himself, thy heart's true home."