Many of us as children thought of a God who was only pleased when we behaved well. That’s not true, but it is a common message we were told from our parents. Good behavior brought approval and bad things brought disapproval. Our concepts of God was influenced by relationships with our parents.
God’s love for us is not tied to performance. He loves us for who we are, not what we do and don’t do. But there is so much more that comes from a knowing that comes through revelation and Spirit given gut insight.
When we choose to follow God moves our hearts to a new understanding. Time expands beyond its borders into the eternal. God loves us no matter what we.
We don’t have to be sin free when we choose to follow God, that happens through a relationship with Him. I think some church judge by the way people look, or what they’ve heard about people when they walk into a church. And it’s so wrong on so many layers. Because the love of God was never meant to be divided up and handed out. God’s love is who we are and what we give.
We cannot separate loving God from loving others or loving ourselves.
From Pity to Praise 