How Good Must You Be For God To Love You?

"How good must you be for God to love you?"  Ever have that question come to your mind?  It came to the mind of a friend of Guidelines who wrote and asked if God performs plastic surgery of the heart to take away the scars of childhood.  The listener told of being born to parents who didn't love her, so they gave her up for adoption.  The adopting parents told her, "If you are good, we will love you."  As a teenager she went to church and seemed to hear the message, "If you are good, God will love you and take you to heaven when you die."  She told of the time when she invited Christ to be her Savior, but she knew she could never be good enough for God to love her.