If you’re dealing with homosexuality in your life, it’s just where you are. It’s yours to deal with. We don’t want to underplay it, but we don’t want to overplay it either. God has desires for you. You live in a broken world where things get turned upside down. But the good news of Christ is yes, He died for us. The great news of Christ is that He lives for us. And He will come to you—inside of you—and change what you want. He’ll change your dreams, change your hopes to align with His hopes and His dreams. That’s part of what we call sanctification: the continuing process of salvation.

Christ’s agenda is His love for you. That’s it. You’re important to Jesus. If you had been the only one to fall, Jesus would have still gone to the cross. Do you know that? Had you been the only one to mess up, Jesus would have died for your sins.

He will take you where He finds you, but He won’t leave you there. In the Bible we have all these stories of Jesus welcoming friends—broken, blind, lame, and sin-covered—”losers”of all kinds. Jesus would stop and talk to them. He would ask their names. We’re told that Jesus had to go a particular way so that He would be at a place called Jericho and Zacchaeus could be found (see Luke 19). Jesus went another particular way so that He would be at a well in Samaria where a woman could be found (see John 4). Through these stories, we come to realize that Jesus seeks us out where we are, and then He leads us to where we need to be.

We were born into a broken world—a broken world that too often breaks us. If that’s where you are, tell Him about it now. You won’t tell Him anything He doesn’t already know. You’re not going to shock Him, so just be honest.

Jesus, this is where I am.

This is what’s going on.

This is what I can’t get out of my head.

This is what I can’t figure out. Help me, Lord.