Our society values perfection. Perfect technology, perfect lives, perfect people. You are expected to be good, to be put together, to be flawless, to be fit, to be kind, to be to be exactly who the world wants you to be. You are told to have it all together and to fake it if you don't. You are told to meet expectations, follow standards, measure up. Perfection is demanded.

But you can't be perfect.

You mess up again and again. You fail tests, you get in accidents, you break stuff, you lose your job, you miss appointments, you use people, you abuse people, you hurt those you love, you hurt those you hate. You see society's standard of perfection, and you miss the mark again and again.

And if you can't meet the standards of society, if you can't measure up there, you start to wonder how you could ever measure up with God. You look at your life, at all you've done, at all you will do, at all of the hurt and pain and damage you've caused yourself and others, and you accept the lie that you are unsaveable.

Maybe you've heard the gospel before, maybe you haven't. Maybe you've been a believer your whole life or maybe you have never placed your hope in God. Maybe you've half bought the truths of the Bible, thinking they are great, but only apply to other people. You think no one knows you or what you struggle with and that if they did, they'd never accept you or love you.

But here's the thing: Your Father already knows you, knows what you struggle with, sees where you fail and fall short, knows every weakness, every bit of damage you have inflicted, and yet, he fiercely loves you with a consuming and unrelenting love.

You are not unsaveable.

The Bible says "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (ESV Romans 5:8). So, before you were cleansed, forgiven, and restored, God thought you were worth it. God saw you, his son, his daughter, and loved you so much he sacrificed his Son's life, his only precious Son whom he loved, for you. He gave his perfect Son up for your mess because he loved you that much more.

And you didn't do a thing for that. You didn't impress God. You didn't earn it. You didn't deserve it. God just saw his broken, hurting child and refused to let you stay that way. He loves you so much he couldn't bear to be separated from you, so he restored what was broken with his Son's broken body.

There is nothing you can do to disqualify yourself from God's love. All you have to do is place your hope in him, your trust, you life, your heart in his hands. He does everything else. And in doing that one thing, you are eternally perfect in the only eyes that matter. God will never change his mind about you. He already knows how far you will fall, he already knows how sinful you have been and will be, but that's the whole point of him. He died to for your sin so you don't have to.

Don't bind yourself to the chains that God already broke you free of. Don't live in guilt and shame, when Christ died for you to experience grace and love. Bring your brokenness to him every day, lay it down at his feet, and let him restore you.

Because of God's inescapable, unrelenting, pursuing love, you are not, and never will be, unsaveable.