The terrible truth about God’s love is that there is nothing I can do to earn it.  This is hard to accept, because I live in a performance-oriented society that tells me I have to pay the price for the good things of life.  Everything worth having must be earned.  Everything, except God’s love.

One of the traps of performance-oriented spirituality is attempting to be worthy of God’s love.  I may accept the fact that I cannot earn it, after all, it’s freely given.  Therefore, I will not try.  However, I will do everything possible to be worthy of it.  It’s the least I can do under the circumstances.  This is wrong, wrong, wrong.  This is a disguised form of trying to earn God’s love by going through the back door of being worthy.

There is nothing I can do to earn God’s love or make Him love me more.  God already loves me from the top of my head to the tip of my toes, and it doesn’t get any better than that.  My job is to open my heart and mind to the power of his love and to pass it on to other people.  It’s that simple.  For as long as I live, I must max out on God’s love.

Excerpt from :

Maximum Strength Positive Thinking : What to Say When You Talk to Your Mind

David J Abbott M.D.