Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise you! I will praise you as long as I live, lifting up my hands to you in prayer. You satisfy me more than the richest feast. I will praise you with songs of joy. [Psalm 63:3-5 (NLT)]

Some of us may have tried desperately to please our parents with things like good grades or blue ribbons in sports so that we would feel worthy of their love. Others may have been in relationships where they felt they had to prove their value to be deserving of their partner’s love. They had to be thinner, prettier, funnier, smarter, earn more money or have more status. God, however, loves us just as we are. He doesn’t love us in spite of our faults; he loves us with our faults. He knows every deep dark secret, every scar, every weakness, every defect, every blemish, and every mistake in our lives. That is not to say he doesn’t want us to grow and become better and more like Christ. But whether we change or not, God will continue to love and care for us. There is nothing that we could do, no change we could make, that would make him love us any more tomorrow than he loves us today.

Thank you, God!

He remembers our frame and knows that we are dust. He may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is. [A. W. Tozer]

I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. [Jeremiah 31:3 (NLT)]

I said if You knew You wouldn’t want me, My scars are hidden by the face I wear.
He said, “My child, my scars go deeper; It was love for you that put them there.
[“I am Loved” by William & Gloria Gaither]