To Accept Others

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Nov 12, 2021 · 3m

God created you and me. Even though He is divine and infinitely greater than us, He wants to accept all of us into His family. Being accepted doesn’t just give us a good feeling; acceptance is one of our deepest needs as humans. When God made the first humans, He was very pleased with us. But when humans went their own way against God, He was grieved because, in His holiness, God cannot accept sin, and people became separated from Him. Yet God longed for us to be near Him again, so Jesus, God the Son, came to live among us. His death and resurrection provided the only way for us to be made…