The Song of God

Low self-esteem and self-loathing are very common maladies.  So often we feel that we are unworthy and undeserving of love.  We wear masks to prevent others from seeing the "real me" in fear they will not like us or be able to love us.

And, understanding that God sees all things, even our inner self, we fear that God cannot possibly love us.  We have weighed ourselves in the balance and have determined that we are unworthy.  

We are not pleased with ourselves, despite all the excuses we allow for our words, thoughts and deeds.  How could anyone else be pleased with us, how could anyone else, knowing all we know about ourselves, truly love us?  

We reason that they can't so we put on masks to hide our true feelings, our true thoughts, our true self.  We go throughout life in fear that we will be found out to be a fraud, that others will see us for who we really are.

And, God, well we can only hope we work enough, give enough, pray enough, earn enough credit that he will accept us into his heaven even knowing what we are really like, seeing into our hearts as he does.

I've got bad news and good news for you.  The bad news is that you are right - you aren't worthy - you never were and never will be.  The good news, however, is that love is not dependent on worthiness.  Consider this, what did your newborn child do to deserve your love?  Cry, mess it's diapher, demand to be fed?  Your love was not dependent on anything that child might do or not - that was your child and that was enough.

God is our Father, we are his children and that is enough for him to love us.  "The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing" (Zep 3:17).  

Did you notice the words "delight," "rejoice" and "singing?"  That is the response of a Father to the child he loves - being worthy or earning does not factor in.  Even when we dissapoint a loving parent, their love does not dissappear.  That love is based on relationship not workmanship.

God has a song for you.  He wants to sing over you.  But he will not force you to listen or return his love.  Love demands a choice and  God is love.  He gives you the choice to acccept his love and his song or not.  What do you choose?  Jus' Askn.