Romans 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
He did not wait for you to clean up before loving you. The whole point is that He moved first. Stop trying to qualify, and start receiving.
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One passage each day, chosen to carry you back to stillness. Sit with it, pray it, return to it.
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Hebrews 12:7
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Proverbs 3:12
For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
Luke 15:20
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
Psalm 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.