God made us valuable and important. There is great joy in experiencing the dignity of being considered valuable and worthy. God the Father wants his children to know that because we have been adopted in Christ, we are partakers of God’s pleasure bestowed in the Son of his love. There is nothing we can do for God to love us more or less. God simply and perfectly loves us in Christ by his grace. This liberating truth enables believers to live out of the freedom of knowing there are no more human expectations to meet to prove we are worthy of anyone’s love. Believers live their lives and get their significance from Christ’s perfect righteousness, not human achievements. We live motivated by a deep joy that is the inexhaustible source of our gratitude.
