You are loved by God, and that is no small thing.
Now you might say, “Yes, but you don’t know my situation. You don’t know what’s happened.” I don’t want to negate the importance of what you’re going through. It matters. And that’s the whole point. It matters to you, and it matters to God.
“Then the Lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering.” Exodus 3:7
The Lord sees everything even more clearly than even we ourselves do. He knows our story backward and forward. He can see beyond the scope of our limited vision. But we will never see things clearly if we hold God up to our circumstances. When we do this, we will always find Him too small.
Instead we must hold our circumstances up to God in order to see them properly. No matter how bad they are, they shrink to their proper size in proportion to our sovereign God. Then we’re able to say, “Yes, this thing might be true, but God is rich in mercy and He loves me very much (Ephesians 2:4).”
The love of God can’t be canceled out. It prevails over every trial, difficulty, opposition, and hardship. It changes things. It restores and renews things. Where the love of God is, all bets are off. It is no small thing to be the object of His love.
“The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.” 2 Chronicles 16:9