41. Deserve: The Dangerous 'D' Word

We are so excited to start a new four part series on two dangerous 'D' words and two powerful 'D' words! In this episode we focus on the dangerous 'D' word: Deserve.

It's a word we toss around and use easily and carelessly without giving much thought to what we are proclaiming. Though there are truths to the word, for example, we deserve the right to life, we deserve worth and dignity but when we look at it in other ways, it can be very dangerous to how we view things.

When we focus on Christ and what we deserve from Him or what is owed to us from our spouses or our children we have turned our relationship into a contract over a covenant.

Saint Augustine reminds us that, "In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty." 

Christ gave us the example of the prodigal son who certainly did not deserve his father's mercy and love. Worldly standards would say he deserved nothing but God does not see things the way that we do.

“God did not die for man because of some value he preserves in him. He loves us not because we are lovable but because He is love.”
-C.S. Lewis.

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