Daily Archives: October 5, 2009
Eliminating the But
Last spring a friend challenged my thinking when she claimed God doesn’t love us in spite of who we are, but because of who we are. Her point was that God doesn’t love us by overlooking our shortcomings. Perhaps our shortcomings, our little idiosyncrasies that we feel are inadequacies, are actually part of our charming uniqueness created by God. He loves us because He made us, even those little quirks that we’re always trying to eliminate.
Please understand I am not asserting that God loves our sin. That’s completely unbiblical and untrue! I am not claiming God loves when we fail. I am only saying — and believe my friend’s point was — that God’s love is unconditional and we need not place conditions on it. God doesn’t love me in spite of my mistakes. He just loves me. I may never fully understand why or how, but He does.
Over the summer I noticed an often repeated phrase in conversation with our kids.
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