what we deserve (LOVE)

While running today I stumbled upon the thought and idea of deserving.  People often say things like "you deserve this" or "he doesn't deserve that"!  But where is it we are actually starting from?  What do we really deserve?
  I think we have to start from the fact that we have a lot.  If you are reading this, chances are you have internet and a working computer.  You probably have a roof over your head and maybe even a chance to pursue education, a place to put your stuff.  Even these couple items are more than many in this world will ever have.  Yet in America we think we deserve so much.  We think we are entitled to all things under the sun.  "Life, liberty and the pursuit right?
  Well I have worked hard for a lot of different elements of life, in a lot of different ways.  Yet the things that really excite me, the parts of life that I have desired most, even deserved, have not come to pass.  So why can't we have what we deserve?  Why can't I ever reach the place where that deserving is met?
  Well for me, i think it all comes back to Love.  Then again, doesn't it always?  Love is the core of life, the true mission of the human heart.  As a Christian, i believe God loves me, as does his son Jesus.  That said, we enter into a whole new area of deserving here.  For all I've done, all i've sacrificed, all I've fallen short, all I've messed up; I still don't deserve this kind of love.  Love that is real, love that is true, love that is infinite.  Even the most righteous and selfless people in this life still don't deserve the love that never fails.  Yet we are told, yet we have seen, that we are all granted this very love.
Christ doesn't care about your mess,
and
God doesn't keep score,
and
when you think of it this way, you suddenly feel a little smaller, and a little less deserving.  We are given the rights of this country, to pursue, to be free, to be alive- yet these are not rights at all, but gifts.  We truly are miracles, each one of us, in a place where all the nations of the world can be found, and can pursue those very gifts.  Freely, openly, truly- WE have to get to the place where we realize we don't deserve nearly anything, yet we are given so much.

You know that expression, "all the best things in life are free"
If that is indeed true, and I believe it to be so, do we deserve even these?  YES

That everyone may Love and be Loved, that all people would feel as though they have a place, as if they matter.
Because they do,
and we do too,
and,
YOU deserve to know.

listen: 
Shane & Shane- "the answer"