Experiencing Self-Compassion 

When you look at yourself and say, “It’s ok that I am not ok,” you allow your heart to engage the first fruit of God’s love. His love accepts you, right where you are. God does not change your problem and then love you. He loves you endlessly from the beginning and forevermore. He approaches every struggle and battle you have with a compassionate acceptance that will fuel you into breakthrough.
Self-compassion and the acceptance of love does not leave you unchanged. It sets the atmosphere by which God’s power works. You cannot experience long-term transformation without first experiencing the atmosphere of God’s loving acceptance. He doesn’t ignore sin, but He also doesn’t withhold love until you have conquered sin. He loves you first, right now, in the midst of your mess. In fact, He will love you even if you never decide to change.
Many seek transformation but skip this stage. They often avoid it because it will lead them to confront the anger and self-hatred they have towards themselves. Most people cannot receive love, until they feel they get to a point where they are “worth” being loved.
Others would say if we truly let ourselves engage the power of self-acceptance, then we will not change and even tolerate sinful lifestyles. This is a limited view of love. If love accepts you right where you are, but provides no avenue of hope for change and transformation, then it’s not really true love.
You cannot move into the greater depths that God’s love has to offer unless you immerse yourself in understanding how He sees you in your sin and struggles.
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