I am a new Creation

"He's coming for a pure bride." - Leeland
We can't be pure. It's physically, emotionally and spiritually impossible - for us. But whatever we can't do, God can. When He comes back to Earth, I want to be His pure bride. I want to be so faithfully, completely, perfectly alive in Him that I am completely dead to the world and wrapped instead in His sanctification.
God can make us pure.
"As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us." - Psalm 103:12 NIV
"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow." - Isaiah 1:18 NIV
God can make us pure. Again, we go back to the control issue. We think that our sin is too big or our life too far gone for God to take us from being a shattered, wilted, crushed piece of nothing to a whole, pure creation. But what makes us think we can? We forget that God already forgave us, that day many years ago when Jesus died on a cross. We don't need to do anything to make up for it - it's already been done, God's already given us the ultimate gift of love and we have already been forgiven. There is nothing left to do except the tiny part that's up to us - accepting that offer. Accepting that no, we can't change ourselves - but God can. Accepting that God has the power and the love to pick us up, piece by piece, and transform us into something beautiful. We don't need to be punished, we don't need to change ourselves - God's already done it.
"Create in me a pure heart, O God." - Psalm 51:10 NIV
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" - 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
"I am a new creation; I have been born again." - Leeland