Recently, I’ve been noticing things in myself that I want to change, whether it’s little things or big things, and I began to realize that I notice them because they’ve been brought to my attention through life events and God’s guiding.
I was driving to work just this week and got so excited, like really excited, not just because God loves me but because He also wants to change me. I felt a BEAUTIFUL conviction of some things in my life. He calls me to be a “better person” on the spectrum of what is TRULY holy and good. He calls me to love Him and be more like Him.
He loves me enough to want to change me and to not leave me the way that I am with all my many failures and inadequacies, to be faithful to bring me to completion and not give up.
I’m just thankful that LOVE calls me to realize who I really am and then that I should be truly holy and truly like Him. He leads me not to my definition of “good” but His, not to my thoughts on what will save me from myself but His. He doesn’t want to leave me content with where I am. He leads me to be like Him, to truth.
I think it’s an interesting definition of love. I feel like often we think love means acceptance the way we are, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. It’s a calling to something better.
Is Love Acceptance?
