I often compare God’s love to the human version of love, where you must consistently prove yourself worthy of being loved. Unfortunately, we carry this understanding of love into our relationship with God.
We approach God with the same mindset. We think we must pray more, do more, or become better before we can experience the fullness of His love.
But God’s love is complete from the very beginning.
He does not love us because of what we have done, nor does He love us more because we have achieved something for Him. There is nothing we can do to qualify ourselves for His love, just as there is nothing we can do to earn an extra measure of it.
We are loved by grace.
Perhaps this is why His love feels so strange to us. We are so accustomed to conditional love that unconditional love can be difficult to comprehend, let alone accept.
Yet, this is the love God offers us. A love that does not wait for us to become worthy before reaching for us.
The challenge, then, is not to convince God to love us, but to learn to accept and enjoy a love that was never ours to earn.
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38–39 (KJV)
