Even you can’t tell yourself how to change, because you didn’t create you. To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God. He has no other agenda. He has no unmet needs he is hoping you can help him with. And he knows what the best version of you looks like. He delighted in the idea of it, and he is already working on it. The apostle Paul said, “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.” Which means God is at work every moment to help you become his best version of you. John Ortberg
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We cannot force love to happen. We cannot hope that love will just appear. No one can take our place in loving another. Love is not something we can earn.

It is not something that someone else provides for us. The only person who may or may not love us is God. And, while we are free to choose our faith, we are not free to choose the actions of God.

If we pray for God to love us, but do not follow his teachings about how to live our lives, then God will see that our requests were insincere and will not respond to them or acknowledge them in any way.

Source: The Me I Want To Be: Becoming Gods Best Version Of You

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