Positional Love

Are you a parent? There's something magical that happens in the moment you become one. When your child is born, you instantly love them more than anything else on the planet. You would from that moment on give your life for them. At least that's how it was for me when each of my children was born.

I love them more than life itself because they are my children, before they've even done anything, either good or bad. Of course, we want our children to make good choices that bring blessing into their lives and not pain. But we love them based on their position to us – simply because they are our children, not based on what they do.

That's how God loves us, based on our position to him, as his sons and daughters, as his children. When we try to earn his love by being good, we're acting like orphans who don't understand their sonship. True sons (and true daughters) live to please their father because they are already secure in his love for them, not to make him love them.