“I also needed to stop trying to do things for God—to earn His acceptance, to be worthy of His love. I knew He wanted me to truly believe deep down that He loved me simply because I was His daughter, not because of what I could do for Him. I was exhausted because I had been trying for too long to be my own savior, and that was never God’s intent. I had relied on self-effort to be good enough when that is exactly what Jesus had died to set me free from.”