You don't have to be perfect, in order for Jesus to forgive you. [Spirituality & Religion]

You don't have to "try" and be good, or even reach a certain level of "goodness" before you come to Jesus for salvation, or before He will forgive you. You don't have to be perfect, in order for Jesus to forgive you. He already wants, and loves you. Transformation, meaning to be given a new mind and nature, comes AFTER you have come to Jesus, asking to be forgiven.  After you have have received God's forgiveness, you are then given the Holy Spirit and the new characteristics of God, because He now LIVES in you, and His Holy Spirit makes YOUR SPIRIT come alive!!! Brand new!! You are a new creation in Christ! God now sees you as RIGHTEOUNESS!! WHY? BECAUSE jesus washed every one of your sins away. Not because of anything YOU did.

Roman's 8:1 - "There is, therefore, now NO CONDEMNATION to them which are in Christ Jesus, who (choose to) walk not after the flesh (our old sinful, selfish ways), but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath made me free from the law of sin and death.