I have some friends who have discovered how much they had been driven to work for God as an attempt to get him to like them. They have since pulled back from the kinds of work they were doing and are on a journey to understand that God loves them just as they are. Throughout the history of the church there have been two polarities, those who feel as though they need to be doing a certain kind of action in their lives to please God, and those who think it’s all about grace and learning to live in Jesus’s love. I can identify with both sides. There is a…