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?  Recently it came to the mind of a listener 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.  She went to church and got 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, and then she knew she could not be good enough for God to love her‑‑she desperately wanted God to love her, but knew she could not be good enough.