Living under open heaven

Are you still proud of me?  Each time I face my weakness, mistakes, and sin, this question comes forth my mind. I realized I have been limiting God's love through earthy lenses; like a son who strives to seek his father's approval and to meet his expectation, wanting to do him proud...  Yet, God loves us fully and completely. This love is unconditional, not based on what we can offer Him. He delights in our truest self, not the version of ourselves that we think He wants, or the expectation people have of us as Christians. He created us, wired us with our own unique set of emotions, strengths, and even weaknesses, He delights in who I am because I am His. The more I realized God's love for me is supernatural and is truly unconditional, where i do not have to strive to be accepted or loved, the more I live in the freedom as a child of God. The past weeks have been difficult. I looked at the mirror, asking what do you see in my reflection, if this is the true me? I sometimes ...

 Let His desire for me be what I desire for myself...  “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God .” ‭‭Micah‬ ‭6:8‬  I can’t deny His existence and my need for Him, as well as how imperfect and fallen I am as a Christian too. Therefore, all the more I need Him, all the more I choose repentance and all the more I choose Jesus every single day.  I might have made mistakes and caused hurt, but never stop being more and more like Him, being a work in progress.  “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.“ There’s nothing else I desire but You...