His Workmanship

There are those who use the excuse that "God says to comes as you are" to justify never changing our ways after we have said those words to accept Christ.

 
The reason God tells them they are accepted as they are when they first come is that He is the one who changes them. They cannot clean themselves up, He must do it.

No one has the ability to clean themselves up before they trust in Christ. They must trust in Him first and then He begins His worrk in us.

 
Ephesians 2:9-10 "…9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life."

Get that? We are HIS WORKMANSHIP, not our own!