As I sit here trying to put things into words, I keep rewriting, backspacing, and scratching my head because I so badly want to put into words what God has done in my heart even just over the course of the past month. All I know to say is that my relationship with Him is turning more into a love story than a set of rules to follow. This summer, He really showed me that there has often been times in my life when I did things because I knew they were the right thing to do not because I was compelled by His love and that growing in Him doesn't start with behavioral changes but heart changes. Even though I cannot comprehend the full measure of His love, the more I realize how sinful I am, the more I realize how much I need him to sustain me every day and how selfless He is to love, want, and die for me. There is so much freedom in knowing there is nothing I could do that would make Him love me more or less and that I serve Him to say "thank you" instead of trying to win His approval. While this is something I have known and believed ever since I accepted His gift of Salvation, He has certainly stamped this truth on my heart over the past months and I just want to fall in love with Him more.
"For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died." 2 Corinthians 5:14
