Believing in God's love for you
In the age of "unfriending" and "ghosting," divisiveness and polarizing, it is more crucial than ever that we be grounded in God's personal love for us. It is very easy to fall into the trap of comparing God's love for us to people's love for us. God's love is unlike human love in every possible, imaginable way. The love we give and receive from others is but a taste, a tiny glimpse, of God's vast love for us. They really cannot be compared at all, if we are honest with ourselves. People can be very fickle. People change. People have issues of their own that they are either dealing with or in denial of. People can be looking more to get love than to give love. Most wait to give love until they get it from another first. It is the rare person who gives love freely without expectation. That is exactly how God loves us. We love because He first loved us (see I John 4:19). While the world seems to be spinning out of control, resulting in a so