{"id":181,"date":"2018-01-03T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/03\/2018-01-cannot-earn-gods-love\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:05:02","slug":"2018-01-cannot-earn-gods-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doinghistime.org\/blog\/2018-01-cannot-earn-gods-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot \u201cEarn\u201d God\u2019s Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The writer Helen Wodehouse said, \u201cWe think we must climb to a certain height of goodness before we can reach God. But He [God] does not say, \u2018At the end of the way you may find me\u2019; He says, \u2018I am <\/em>the Way; I am the road under your feet, the road that begins just as low down as you happen to be.\u2019 If we are in a hole, the Way begins in the hole. The moment we set our face in the same direction as His, we are walking with God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us wake up each morning feeling that God could never love us. People we trusted sometimes sexually abused us as children and then afterward angrily told us we were worthless. As adults, we often stayed in abusive relationships, hopelessly searching for love. We misguidedly thought that if we treated our abusers better, we could earn their love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us view a relationship with a loving God in the same twisted way. We mistakenly feel we must \u201cbe good\u201d to earn <\/em>His love. Nothing is further from the truth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God does not care where we have been; He is concerned only about where we are going. He searches for us and meets us where we are. God comes alongside us at the most depressing moment of our lives and whispers that He loves us, forgives us, and believes in us (see John 3:16; Jeremiah 29:11). We can trust those words!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can experience God\u2019s redeeming love. We can cop to the sin in our lives and turn away (repent) from it (see 1 John 1:9). When we confess and change direction, we will be on the right road. His genuine, authentic love will flood our hearts as we walk in His direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The writer Helen Wodehouse said, \u201cWe think we must climb to a certain height of goodness before we can reach God. But He [God] does not say, \u2018At the end of the way you may find me\u2019; He says, \u2018I am the Way; I am the road under your feet, the road that begins just as low down as you … <\/p>\n

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