We are the bride of Christ...we do not have to try to gain His favor. We already have it.
According to Ephesians 5:25-27 He gave all of Himself up for us to make us holy and blameless. He is crazy about us and he required nothing in return...We cannot even fathom what he has done for us...imagine giving EVERYTHING and receiving nothing in return. THIS LOVE IS PASSIONATE!!!
and this love is RELENTLESS...even when we are filled with sin and unrighteousness.
Rom 5:7-8 "For one will scarcely die for a righteous person though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Rom 5:20-21 "WHERE SIN INCREASED, GRACE INCREASED ALL THE MORE!etc..."
Eph 2:3-5 "...by GRACE you have been saved"
His love never fades, no matter what we are doing, where we are. It is unchanging. He is pursuing you wherever you are right now.
Mary Magdalene would have been considered one of the 'worst sinners of her time' and yet God required nothing from her, there is no recording of a huge repentance from her or of her trying to right all of her wrongs. Just looking at her the Lord changed her. He allowed her to lavish on HIM a passionate display of affection in a very inappropriate place for that time, a house of Pharisees and only men (and they were 'holy' men). These men were astonished and appalled. So if you are being ridiculed by the 'religious people' of this time, you are probably being blessed and passionately pursued by the One who matters :)
2 Cor 12:9 "'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."
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