Earning an Allowance?

I don't know about you, but I'm happy to know that God's love is not earned. We don't have to do anything to get it, except get it. We barely even have to understand it, but we have to take it, accept it.
Some of us have a hard time accepting it, either because it's too hard, or too easy. Actually, it seems that ultimately, it is too easy so we make up things in order to make it harder for ourselves.
You mean, all we have to do is just accept a truth in our heart, not even DO anything about it, really? That's too easy. We need to accomplish all these tasks and say and do all these things, or the truth is not really ours. In high school English class, my teacher told me that the way you claim ownership of a word is to use it at least three times in a day, in a natural way. Once we did that, it became locked into our vocabulary, and we owned that word. Surely, the concept is the same with salvation.
No, it is not. Not exactly. It may be a flimsy example, but the point was that you don't have to do anything. You don't have to use sayings or pray a certain amount of times in order to make Christ a part of your life. The concept behind the English word was that we had to prove our mastery over the use of that word in order to claim it. Not so with Christ.
We make up reasons why we are so bad that we cannot be saved, and we stubbornly hold to these conclusions of self-proclaimed hopelessness so that we can feel bad about ourselves. Why? Because we cannot just take something free! Even though society teaches us that nothing in life is free, this is indeed free... and nothing we have done can add a cent to the amount we have to pay for it.

"Whatever we have done in the past, be it good or evil, great or small, is irrelevant to our stance before God today. It is only now that we are in the presence of God." - Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

Technically, we do not deserve salvation. Salvation is only by grace, grace meaning unearned; free. We have earned death. Some say that is not fair, since most of us go through life never commiting a sin that is usually considered punishable by death, but sin in itself is. Our existence in itself is. God is just, but He loves us, therefore He made possible salvation so that He would not have to give us what we really deserve. Just shut up and take it.

Robulous