God is not going to value you more because you change the way you go into a relationship - You will have a much greater success in carefully choosing the who, what, when, why and where of your relationships, but God values His creation, (you) by the atonement of His Son.
God is not going to care for you more if you stop smoking - or drinking to excess - or carousing - These are things you give up to benefit your life and those around you. God cares for you despite any and all of your shortcomings, inabilities, even indiscretions, but God knows that you will enjoy life more, greatly benefit those around you and be a more ready vessel for the things of God - when you make changes that benefit yourself.
God knows that you will have more joy, peace, wisdom, & happiness - more of everything good when you make decisions that reflect what you already know to be good for you. That's how God planned it.
Excerpts from The Power of God Thinking by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2010
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