Stop Trying So Hard To Make God Love You!

Since sin first entered the world we as humans have tried to strive for God’s love, approval and attention. We usually try to do this by some form of working really hard to “be a good person,” the challenge is we never fully achieve that and in all of our striving we end up up feeling further from God than closer.

I was talking to a young man recently that was so anxious and wound up about “not sinning” that he couldn’t really connect with God.

He was trying to do God’s job of transformation and healing.

Jesus will do the saving and the transforming as you come closer to Him, don’t fall into the trap of trying to “fix yourself.” God loves you and his attention is on you! You are his focus and priority! What do you think kept him on the cross? YOU!

And if we forget how much we are loved and valued, go back to this icon verse and really let the truth sink in:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
‭‭John‬ ‭3:16-17‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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