We need God.

I woke up this morning with a bit of a heavy heart. Not because there is anything necessarily bad going on, but because I mourn for those who have been told mixed messages about the nature and character of God, and now they have become jaded. Oh, how I grieve this!
As I read through Facebook and other social media, I am reminded of how many perspectives there are about church, religion, and Jesus himself. The only solution I could arrive at in my heart is that there IS hope and Jesus IS working to draw all men, women, and children to His heart. I'm weary at how hard it is in our society for Him to clear away the noise and confusion that has been caused by... well, I can't even name all the causes.
I feel like His Truth has become relative in our attempts to make His message relevant. I am sad that people don't know how loved and valued they are by the One True Love. I am sad that it seems people (myself included) don't always trust God's Truth and go searching for some other "truth" to find comfort and validation.
I want my friends who (at some point in their lives) have tasted the goodness of The Lord to know that He is not finished pursuing them. I want them to know how His heart breaks for them to sense His TRUE nature- not a man-made gospel that is clothed in good intentions, but still misses the point. I want God's heart to be made known so freely and so lovingly- but this can't happen if we, the Church, continue to make it about us and our programs.
In order for God's name to be made famous, there needs to be a re-wiring amongst those who are unwilling to let Love take us to inconvenient, "yucky" places-places that might make others "think things" about us.
We need God. Everyone needs God. And we need to let God direct our methods of "messaging". May  God give us grace and mercy as we try and try again to keep His Message clear of our muddy one.
May those who are jaded take heart- He WILL finish what He started and He WILL show you an unpolluted version of Himself.

2 Corinthians 4:5-6
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.