When you feel unloveable, Father loves you. When you don’t love yourself, His love for you never wavers. He simply refuses to let go or even loosen His grip.
If we read the sermon on the mount and think “well there are a couple of areas in my life I need to work on”
We have completely missed the primary purpose of the sermon.
It is purposely designed to cause our hearts to cry out for a savior and to lead us back to the cross.....
Truth is I will fail to give God the glory He deserves today, but He won’t stop pouring out all of His love and the riches of His grace. That scandalous one way love unravels me. I am His forever!
The gospel is not just one piece of good news that fits into my life somewhere among all the bad. The gospel makes genuinely good news out of every other aspect of my life!
-Milton Vincent
For a Christian, it’s not about “what I want” vs “what God wants” any more. He changed our deepest desires, and His righteousness is our new baseline! We are complete in Him.