What Do I Deserve?

What do you deserve as a “good” human being?  Do you deserve to have a good job?  Do you deserve to be happy?  Do you deserve to find a loving spouse? To start a family?  To own a home? To go on trips?  Have you ever thought to yourself, I am a good person, I deserve this?  I have, but am I right to do so?  It’s not really a question I have a solid answer to.  I have been blessed with a home and a loving husband, but I have not been blessed with a job.  Am I deserving of some things and not others?  So I ask, what do we deserve as God’s children?

God gives us mercy and grace with no price, but do we deserve it? God gave us His only son as a free ticket into his kingdom, but did we earn it? We are a broken world full of sinful creatures.  We are blasphemous, we are proud, we hate and we curse those who are different than us.  What have we done to earn His love?  Nothing.  He loves us regardless of our flaws and faults.  He thinks we are beautiful even when our souls are ugly and torn. 

God gave us a love that our stupid human minds have yet to even comprehend, but do we deserve more?  I am from the school of thought that everything I have received and have yet to receive is from Him.  This house I am sitting in would never have been purchased without God, but did I deserve it or did He give it to me simply because He loves me?

If I had to come up with an answer I would say we don’t deserve the love He has given us, but God is so infinitely good that He gave it anyway.  He sees value in us even when we are wretched, He knows our worth when we don’t know it ourselves, and that’s why I love my God.  

So what do we deserve as God’s children?  Perhaps nothing, I don’t really know, but He has found it in His heart to give us everything.