There’s not one thing we can do to get God to like us more. He already likes us. He likes you so much that he thinks about you day and night. Psalm 139:17 says, “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!” And Psalm 40:5 says, “Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.” There really is no need to try to impress God. He is impressed with His Son, and if you are a believer, you are in Him…in Christ. So God is already impressed with you.
If that’s not enough good news, God is not DEpressed by anything you do either. Turning your back on Him won’t mess with His mind. Doing some awful sin won’t make Him wring His hands wondering what He’s going to do with you. He doesn’t lose heart when you fail. He’s not a shunner either. God is not going to withhold His love from you until you straighten up and fly right. That’s not His method. His method is to pour more love. Love, love and more love is His way of doing things. You haven’t made Him depressed by the things you have done. As a matter of fact, He is graciously waiting for you to come to your senses and return for His embrace.
His love is really unconditional. Not many of us have experienced unconditional love from the people we have been loved by. There always seems to be strings attached. But not our God. He accepts us on the basis of His love not on the basis of our performance. Hallelujah!! “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” I John 3:1
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September 3, 2008 at 2:02 pm
marissa franklin
Please, for you to say our actions to not phase God at all is to make Him a robot. God created emotions! Has has all of them! He is sad, weary, pleased, not pleased, etc. by our relationship or lack of relationship with Him. He is a PERSON! But a Spirit one. Of course, God loves us even if we leave Him, rebel against Him, etc. But please, since He created emotions and Has all of them in proper expression at all times, yes, He does get angry, sad, etc. when we do not obey Him because He knows that we are heading for hurt for ourselves, just like the human parents He created, with these same emotions, feel about their wayward children. They still love them, but those wayward, rebellious children cause incredible pain to our hearts, and to His! Please stop making God out to be some love machine that just doles out nothing but “warm fuzzies” for us at all times! True love shows many emotions, and acts in many ways that may belie the actions that must be taken in order to demonstrate that love!
September 3, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Walkit.org
Jeremiah 31:2 “This is the way God put it: “They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!” God told them, “I’ve never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! And so now I’ll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You’ll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance. You’ll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you’ll enjoy those harvests! The time’s coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: ‘On your feet! Let’s go to Zion, go to meet our God!’” The Message