How can God love us when we consistently fail to follow His Word?
Very possibly God’s love is even greater for us at the point where we do fail to follow God’s Word and way. God’s love for me, for each and all of us, is not based on my or our performance (Thanks be to God), but on the revealed nature of the heart of God. Another way of saying this is in a one-liner I often use: “God does not love me because I am good, but because God is good.” In terms of our failures, the deep awareness of God’s forgiveness is often the tap root of one’s spirituality. Forgiveness breathes new life over and over into the life of the one forgiven. God, the Great Forgiver, embraces each of us in our darkest failures. —The Rev. Dr. Douglass M. Bailey At a weekend spiritual retreat, I heard something that spoke directly and deeply to this question. The topic was Grace, God’s Grace — the fact that God’s love is abundant and complete. Nothing I do could cause God to love me one bit more, or one bit less. Grace is what God does for me. I can’t earn it. It is a gift. My huma
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