You find the stray dog sitting, half frozen - shaggy and starving - on your back step. You are filled with compassion and take them in. But you do more than just open the door, you feed them, clean them up and take them in as part of your own family. As such, house train them, wash them and train them - removing bad behaviors and habits. You are not content to just have them in your home, no, you seek to make them more than they were and to give them a life they may have never known possible before.
Jesus will accept you were you are - shaggy, half starved, frozen - it does not matter where you are in your life or what you may have done or why you did any of it. He does more than just 'open the door' for you; He welcomes you into His family. But like the stray, He is not content to leave you as you are - He desires you to be more than you ever fathomed possible.
So if you think God would never accept you, you are dead wrong my friend.
And if you already have found salvation through Christ remember this: He accepted you where you were but He is not content that you should stay there.
"Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" ~ Romans 6:1-2
