You are deeply loved. Deal with it.

It’s safe to expect good to come.

There’s a book by a guy named Gay Hendricks.  He stumbled onto something signigant regarding the human heart and mind.

He has observed a pattern of self-sabotage directly connected to people’s sense of worthiness.  He observed that people have a threshold of goodness that they will always keep themselves under through subconscious self-sabatoge.

I call it the goodness tolerance.

The book is called “The Big Leap.”

(My observations here) So, what we need to do in order to come into the fullness of the goodness God that He intends for us, is to intentionally raise our toleration for goodness by letting God love us beyond what we feel we are worthy of.

That’s how God increases our capacity in the kingdom.

Peter and the abundance of fish is what preceded his call to discipleship.

The demoniac and the decopolis.

The woman at the well.

He blasts people with more goodness than they feel they are worthy of and in so doing, He increases our capacity for goodness until we finally get our eyes off of our self-righteousness or lack thereof and onto God and those we are called to serve.

Because that willingness to freely receive the love, favor and grace of God is the degree to which you will be willing to love others.

The degree to which you are willing to be loved is the limit on which your love for others is hindered.

You will unconsciously keep the world around you below the threshold of what you believe you are worthy of. 

This is why believing the gospel is so vibrant.

By believing that Gospel, we come into agreement with heavens evaluation of us and the people in our world.

Jesus paid the highest price to restore us to the pinnacle of what God intended for the human experience.

By paying that price for us out of pure love, he created the precedent in the market so to speak which establishes our value.  He took us off the market by purchasing us with His own blood.

Once that happened, no one else’s valuation is accurate. 

Not even our own.

Believing the gospel is the ultimate cure for low self-worth.

So.

To believe the gospel, is to believe that we are infinitely worthy of love, infinitely worthy of goodness and favor.

Believing the gospel is also the cure for a low view of others.

To believe the gospel, is to believe that every human is of infinite value and that every human is worthy of love.

If we honestly and truly live our lives under this belief, our lives would reflect the beauty of the kingdom of God.

It can also be said that our lives will look more like heaven, more like Eden, to the degree that we actually believe the gospel.

So.

How much goodness are you willing to tolerate today?

Are you willing to allow God to love you beyond what you feel you are worthy of?

Are you willing to allow God to be good to you?

Are you willing to receive God’s goodness and mercy in every area where you’ve felt unworthy?

Today, allow God to be as good to you as He wants to be.

Jesus loves yer face.

Accept the good.