All of Us
If you're in a hurry today, let me sum up this post for you quickly: God doesn't want our best. He wants our response.
That's it. The end. Nothing more to say.
Except, I will say more because I want you to understand this beautiful truth. I don't want you continue through your life without grasping it's realness in the core of your being. It's so simple, but it is so central.
God doesn't want our best. The rest of the world does. In fact, they demand our best. Give 110%. Put your best foot forward. Put on a happy face. I am sure God loves us to glorify Him with our achievements, our obedience, and our accomplishments. But God is also glorified in our weakness. God is also glorified when we fall short. Because when we are weak, He is strong.
God wants all of us. He wants our best and our worst and our mediocre, our successes and our failures, our jump-up-and-scream moments and our sit-down-and-cry moments, and every single second in between. Because God's opinion of us, His longing for us, is not dependent upon what we do, but upon who we are. We were made to be His. We were made to laugh with Him, to cry with Him, to celebrate with Him, and to mourn with Him.
Our qualifications do not make Him love us more. Our failures do not make Him love us less. That's what unconditional love is about.
But God does want our response. Our love for God, which is merely an overflow of His love for us, is something the King of the universe was willing to get at any cost. When we weren't good enough to qualify to play the game, he beat it and then changed the rules.
He never wanted to spend His life with us. Instead, He spent His life on us, that we might spend Eternity with Him. He qualified us. He played for us. Now He wants us to claim our prize: Him.
That's it. The end. Nothing more to say.
Except, I will say more because I want you to understand this beautiful truth. I don't want you continue through your life without grasping it's realness in the core of your being. It's so simple, but it is so central.
God doesn't want our best. The rest of the world does. In fact, they demand our best. Give 110%. Put your best foot forward. Put on a happy face. I am sure God loves us to glorify Him with our achievements, our obedience, and our accomplishments. But God is also glorified in our weakness. God is also glorified when we fall short. Because when we are weak, He is strong.
God wants all of us. He wants our best and our worst and our mediocre, our successes and our failures, our jump-up-and-scream moments and our sit-down-and-cry moments, and every single second in between. Because God's opinion of us, His longing for us, is not dependent upon what we do, but upon who we are. We were made to be His. We were made to laugh with Him, to cry with Him, to celebrate with Him, and to mourn with Him.
Our qualifications do not make Him love us more. Our failures do not make Him love us less. That's what unconditional love is about.
But God does want our response. Our love for God, which is merely an overflow of His love for us, is something the King of the universe was willing to get at any cost. When we weren't good enough to qualify to play the game, he beat it and then changed the rules.
He never wanted to spend His life with us. Instead, He spent His life on us, that we might spend Eternity with Him. He qualified us. He played for us. Now He wants us to claim our prize: Him.
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