God's love for you is unconditional. That is, God doesn't love you because of some virtue you possess. God loves you because "God is love" (1 John 4:8), not because you are lovely.
Religion is one of the biggest propagators of the conditional-love-of-God lie. Most churches teach that God's love for you is conditional, based on your performance. If you pray, go to church, pay your tithes, etc., then the Lord loves you and answers your prayers; but if you fail, then the Lord doesn't answer your prayers. That's not true.
Satan uses many methods to try to block the revelation of God's love for us. One of the subtlest, and therefore deadliest, ways is that he has deceived us into thinking that God's love for us is tied to our performance. We think we have to do something to earn God's love. We have to merit God's love. That is not what the Bible teaches . . .
Learn more about how much God loves you in Andrew's free teaching, God's Kind of Love to You. |
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