One of the most common struggles I hear from people who are trying to walk with the Lord is the feeling that they don’t deserve His love. I know this feeling all too well, because for a long time, I carried the same weight. I thought that all the mistakes I had made disqualified me from truly being loved by God.
But when I began to understand who God really is, He showed me something that changed my perspective: no one has the authority to decide what they do or do not deserve. God is perfect, and His ways are higher than ours. No man can tell a perfect God what He should or should not do. That includes trying to tell Him who is worthy of His love—because He has already decided we are.
The Bible says, “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). This means that even in our imperfection, God had already chosen to love us. Our sins don’t disqualify us—they are the very reason we need Him.
When I stopped beating myself up and saw my mistakes not as the end, but as opportunities to grow, I realized that God was allowing me to recognize my brokenness so that I could bring it to Him. If we never see what’s wrong, we won’t know what to surrender. Mistakes are not proof that we’re failures; they’re reminders that we can’t do life without God’s help.
God desires honesty from us. He already knows our weaknesses, but He waits for us to come to Him with a sincere heart, saying, “Lord, I don’t want to be this person anymore.” That’s when He steps in, corrects, restores, and leads us into becoming who He designed us to be.
I’ve also learned that God wants us to lean on Him in every detail—asking Him how, what, when, and where. He doesn’t want us to drive our own lives, but to trust Him as the one who leads us. When we do this, the weight of guilt begins to lift, because we’re no longer trying to figure it all out on our own.
If you’ve ever felt like you don’t deserve God’s love, let me encourage you today: you don’t have to qualify yourself. His love has already been given. Your past does not erase His promises. Instead, bring it all to Him, and watch how He turns your mistakes into testimonies.
