you can’t earn his love

We don’t have to earn his love, yet I still feel like I need to work for it. It is hard for me to believe that a man is as wonderful as Jesus Christ himself and that someone and something as holy and excellent as God would love me as much as He does. Like how, how can someone as loving and kind and tender and all the things my heart longs to feel that he provides, love me? Someone who messes up all the time it feels like I am always asking for his forgiveness, he loves me? It almost feels too good to be true. But it is. And when I find myself trying to work for his love, I realize that I am not operating from a daughter mentality, but a slave mentality. When I wake up in the mornings, I don’t have to go and cook a huge big elaborate breakfast for my parents or family because I wanna earn some of their love that day. But I wake up and I can do nothing, but they still will love me with their everything. And it is that same way with God. he loves me no matter what. Does that mean that I have a free pass to go out and sin because he will still love me? Not at all, but it does take that weight off that we feel like we gotta work to earn his love. It does remind me that in moments when I wanna avoid worshipping him because I feel I am not good enough, he loves me regardless and he longs to hear the praises from my heart. He longs to hear what I am dealing with and he has answers he longs to give us in response to these things. He longs to have a relationship with me. It’s a wild thing to think, that Jesus wants to have a relationship with me. We live in a society where you have to earn your place, you have to work to get love, and you have to do something. And Jesus does the opposite. He saw that we could never save ourselves, so he came down and took our place and did what we couldn’t do and he still extends his love to us. And not only does he offer us full salvation, but he offers us his blessings! He offers gifts to us because he just loves us that much. He promises to never leave nor forsake us. He promises to be close to us when we are brokenhearted. He promises that everything he does is for our good, even when it hurts. He adopts us into his family. So today friend I wanna encourage you, you don’t have to earn his love. In fact, you physically cannot earn his love. There is nothing you could do today that could earn the love of God. you can’t work hard enough, pray long enough, or read your bible enough. His love for you is so deep and infinite that there is nothing you can do to earn it. He freely gives it. So rest today in his love, my friend. Rest today knowing that living a life of surrender is the best thing you can do. He had your future in his hands. He has everything under control and keeps trusting him and believing the depth of his love for you.

-grace 🙂