When you have friends coming round to your house and they’re visiting for the first time, you want everything to look perfect. Right? Goodness me, they couldn’t really see how you live, could they?

So, we’ve put wings on our backs and we’re flying around trying to get everything cleaned and hiding away bits and pieces in cupboards! It’s quite surprising how much fits into a cupboard when it’s necessary.

It got me thinking though, I have a special friend. In fact, he’s probably the best friend going. He comes into my house and into my messy life and he accepts me for who I am…just as I am…cobwebs and all!

How cool is that?

I don’t need to put everything perfectly in order for Him to come into my life. I don’t need to be flying around making sure that every little nook and cranny is hopelessly cleaned. And I especially don’t need to hide away little secrets into closets so He can’t find them.

I am thankful that I don’t need to put on airs and graces with Jesus. He knows everything about me and He has chosen to accept me and whatever has happened in my life, even before I chose to accept Him into my life.

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.

Ephesians 1:4-5

This was written for the Five Minute Friday Community, where a number of writers gather for a weekly writing challenge around a single word prompt and write to our hearts content, but only for five minutes (or there abouts).

This weeks word prompt is ‘fly’. Click here if you want to see what other people wrote. You can also have a go yourself. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘fly’?