dailydatewithgod

God is pure. As an extension of God we also posses a purity of love as part of our nature.  It is not something we earn, we are inherently virtuous.  We don’t do it because we have to make it up to God for being born impure.  Growing up I was certain that I was tainted and dirty.  I felt gross and disgusting and I didn’t connect with why until I remembered the incest later in life.  All I knew at the time was that something felt very wrong inside of me. Whatever our circumstances we have all thought and felt similar things.  I thought I had to cover this lack of virtue and carried the shame of imperfection. It propelled me into thinking I needed to earn God’s love and prove that I was good enough.  Unfortunately the religious ideology under which I was raised reinforced the belief that I had messed up somehow and had to continually be virtuous enough to show I had truly accepted God into my heart.  As I have matured and grown in my relationship with God I can see the false nature of this sense of virtue.  We are virtuous by our very nature.  What we are called to do in our relationship with God is accept this as true and live into it.  We may not always act virtuous but our behavior does not change God’s creation.

If God has created us in his image, how might you be open to embracing the virtue of love you are and always have been today?  Share in the comments.