You are Good

 And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased."

Mathew 3:17 

In other words: "You are able. You are good. It is so good that you exist." Jesus has yet to perform miracles or to die on the cross for the sins of humanity. Nonetheless. he receives an experiential affirmation that he is deeply loved by his heavenly Father for who he is. This love is the foundation of his self-understanding and the root source of how he feels about himself. 

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Peter Scazzero 

My dear friend gave me this book. 

I had never thought about this truth before. 

Jesus did not have to earn his Father's love.  

God the Father proclaimed from heaven the good He saw in his Son.

The Father did not say "good job" but called his Son, Beloved. 

We, too, do not have to earn the Father's love. 

The world says, "The only thing you deserve is what you earn." Tom Brands 

This is a lie. 

We do not have to earn our worth. 

Sometimes we think if we do all the right things then we are worthy of God's love. 

However, nothing we ever do will ever be worthy of God the Father's love. 

Our unworthiness makes us worthy. 

We are His Beloved. 

He is saying to you today,

"It is good that you exist." 

Remember this. 

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