earning Gods love?

hey guys my name is kaitlyn and I'm new here. I'm a pretty kool kid id say. OK so any ways iv been reading a lot in Acts lately. iv always thought that Acts was the holy spirit chapter, and in a way it is but i think their are many more important points to Acts. What God has really been revealing to me is how i try to earn his grace and love. which when you think about it is completely ridiculous! how can we possible earn Gods love??? what could we possibly do for God that he needs? in Acts 17 . 24-27 it says:

the God who made the world and everything in it

is the Lord of heaven and earth does not live in

temples built by hands. and he is not served by human

hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself

gives all men life and breath and everything else.

from one man he made every nation of men, that

they should inhabit the whole earth; and he

determined the times set for them and the exact places

where they should live. God did this so that men

would seek him and perhaps reach out to him and find

him, though he is not far from each of us.

so this clearly says that God isn't served by us, in the simplest way possible God does not need us. but thankful he wants us, like it says at the end God did all this for us so that hopefully we would reach out to him. God just desires for us to have a relationship with him and when we try to "earn" his love we get in the way of that. Its almost insulting to God to try to earn his love because it diminishes what he did for us. he died a horrible and painful death for us and to think we can repay that is insulting. the best way i can think to explain it is with the movie stranger than fiction. i dont know if you guys have seen this movie but its pretty great and if u haven't seen it u should definitely check it out. but any ways that's besides the point, OK in one part of the movie this girl makes cookies for the main character because she knows hes had a hard day. the main character though being an idiot tries to buy the cookies from her instead of just accepting the gift. obviously it insults her, I'm mean who wouldn't be insulted! she slaved all day to make those cookies for him and instead of him just accepting them he has to be difficult. well aren't we kind of doing the same thing with God? hes given us this awesome gift but instead of just accepting it we try to pay for it. its a dumb thing to do and it will never work! i think coming to terms with the fact that God is just God and he does everything for us because he loves us not because he needs something will bring us closer to him. it will allow us to stop doing stuff for God because we feel we have some debt to repay, we will simply do things for God because we love him. so stop trying to earn Gods love, just have a relationship with him.