We hear this all the time. God is love, therefore he loves me as I am. A loving God would not condemn me for how I am made or for what makes me happy. There is truth in stating that God is love, but like anything the truth hides the full story.
God does love us. In fact he so loved us that he gave his one and only Son to die for us, “that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16. God loves us, but he is also a holy God, and without the atonement of the blood of Christ, we will be judged. This is the whole story. God does love us, in fact more than we know, and so much that he gave his only Son to die in our place, but we must believe in Christ as our Lord and Savior.
It is not about us, but it is about God. When we make it about us, we miss the whole story, but God wants us to know the truth. Our sermon this week took a deep dive into prayer and how we pray, or rather how we ought to pray. As Christ taught…Lord your will be done. In the same way, do we pray selfishly, missing the story, or do we pray that God may be glorified, that God’s will be done as opposed to our own.
Too often I focus on me, on the here and now. I pray that I can change my focus and thoughts to that of the risen Lord, and pray that through all things he may be know to the world.