Gabe Strydom | Lordship | DAY 3

What if the thing driving your life isn’t devotion—but pressure to perform? That tension hits hard: if your identity isn’t rooted in love, it will default to performance every single time. And not just any love—this is hesed, a relentless, covenant-keeping love that refuses to let go. It doesn’t rise and fall with your behavior. It’s stubborn, and wildly committed—even when you’re inconsistent, faithless, or flat-out running the other way. That flips everything. The real issue isn’t whether you can stay faithful—it’s whether you trust that God already is. Because the defining pattern of God’s character isn’t distance or disappointment—it’s pursuit. From the very beginning, when humanity hid in shame, God didn’t withdraw—He came looking. Not with anger, but with urgency. Not to punish first, but to cover, restore, and bring back. That’s the testimony written across history: God remains unchanging in love while meeting people at their most broken. So the invitation is simple but confronting—stop building your life on how well you can hold it together. Start building it on the reality that you’re already held. Real freedom, real surrender, and real faith don’t grow out of fear—they grow out of being relentlessly loved. To join the burning ones -> www.fireandfragrance.com