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If your personal experience is a life of unlove and ungrace, if those are actual words, how can you believe in a God of love and grace?
Do we need to learn to see ourselves through God's eyes where we are lovable rather than through our own eyes where we see only our limitations or the eyes of others who make us feel that we are not good enough?
I like the parable of the Prodigal Son because it shows how both brothers needed to reassess themselves and see themselves more as their father saw them. His father made the younger son who went away and squandered everything feel that he was still lovable and loved and taught the older brother that he shouldn't feel that it was unfair because his father was always with him and everything he had was his.
But it's a big chasm to get over if you feel that you haven't experienced love or grace in the real world. Has anyone been in this situation and found restoration or know anyone who has, and how did this come about?
Do we need to learn to see ourselves through God's eyes where we are lovable rather than through our own eyes where we see only our limitations or the eyes of others who make us feel that we are not good enough?
I like the parable of the Prodigal Son because it shows how both brothers needed to reassess themselves and see themselves more as their father saw them. His father made the younger son who went away and squandered everything feel that he was still lovable and loved and taught the older brother that he shouldn't feel that it was unfair because his father was always with him and everything he had was his.
But it's a big chasm to get over if you feel that you haven't experienced love or grace in the real world. Has anyone been in this situation and found restoration or know anyone who has, and how did this come about?