You don’t have to become a better version of yourself before you’re worthy of God’s love. He isn’t waiting for you on the other side of your healing, your questions, or your mistakes. He loves you here, as you are, today.

God wants you to hear this today —

The way I love you has never changed.

You keep wondering if I’ve become disappointed in you. If I’ve grown distant because you’ve struggled, doubted, or found yourself in a season you never expected to be in. But that’s not how my love works.

My love has never been something you’ve had to earn

Jacqueline Whitney

I knew every chapter of your story before you ever lived it. I knew the prayers you’d pray, the mistakes you’d make, the days your faith would feel strong, and the days it would barely whisper my name.

And I chose to love you anyway.

There has never been a version of you that was easier for me to love than the one reading this today. Not the version that had everything together. Not the version before the heartbreak. Not the version before the questions or the waiting.

My love has never been something you’ve had to earn, and it has never been something you’ve had the power to lose.

The way I love you has never changed. It never will.

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.