We Deserve Everything God has Given Us

Through experiences, messages from others, self-doubt, and many other sources, people come to believe that they are undeserving of love, forgiveness, or care from others. When families, other loved ones, or even staff members show compassion or devotion to someone that I work with, it is often followed by feelings of guilt and shame because “I don’t deserve it.”

Romans 5:6-8 says, “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” While we were yet sinners… when we least deserved it… when we were not “worth it” by any earthly standard… that is the very time when Christ made the greatest sacrifice and showed the most powerful act of love in all of history.