Me: I hope I can do this right.

Prodigal: Do the best that you can. Sometimes that should be the focus.

This is from the book Lead Like Jesus by Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges, and Phyllis Hendry

If God’s love for you were based on your performance–on how well you lived up to His standards of righteousness–you would never be free of anxiety. The alternative is to accept God’s unconditional love for you: admit that you can’t earn enough, achieve enough, or control enough to get any more love from Him. In Jesus you already have access to all the love you need and infinitely more. That truth is so powerful. Once you believe that you are completely and unconditionally loved by God, you won’t be misled by earthly things that offer love, peace, safety, and security.

God sees when we stay up at night with worry. You do not have to feel shame. He has compassion on you. God love you so much and is proud of you. That is what He wants you to feel tonight when you go to bed. The performance does not change the wonderful love and relationship we have with our Father in heaven.

All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:16-17

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org