Have you ever been told that you don’t deserve the love of God by others and perhaps you believe deep down in your heart you need to do more to be worthy of love from God? For me, being Christian and gay, I have been told in church that “God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve”, “The LGBT is going to destroy the family value”. A lesbian friend of mine was told, “If she believes she can be a Christian, that’s a devil’s lie”. I saw banners on the internet “God hates fags”. Plus, countless more other incidents. There were times when I was at church, I was told to be discrete about my sexuality. Hoping to convert my sexuality.

All these are just human’s opinions. Let me tell you that, God loves you no manner what you think you fall-short of or any kind of sin you have. When you believe in Christ, God sees you through Jesus, as a perfect child. If we feel that we are not worthy of love of God, it’s in a way we are denying what Jesus has done for us on the cross – he died for our sin! You are worthy.

Put aside all the opinions people have on you and look straight to Jesus. Just like Zacchaeus, the chief tax-collector at Jericho, he looked straight to Jesus. When you look out to Jesus, he notices you, he would come to you just like how he went to Zacchaeus, despite people around Zacchaeus were unhappy about Jesus decided to go to his house. Those unhappy people around Zacchaeus possibly made a lot of noise and the noise is just humans’ opinion. They don’t matter, all that matter is the presence of Jesus.