What kind of behaviour do you expect from your King? If you find yourself avoiding God, fearing His punishment, approaching Him only for directions, and unable to ask for what you need emotionally, is it possible that you are mixing and matching faces and character expectations with those of important people in your life, in either past or present relationships? Is your god the distant king who knows you only by a number? Does he walk about arrogantly spouting orders and expecting you to carry them out perfectly? Or is He the King who stoops to help you up when you fall, who can neither hide His goodness nor hold His heart back from loving you?
Jesus is the King who rejoices over you, quieting you with His love. He is the King whose kind face looks lovingly into your eyes every time you come to Him, whether you perceive this to be true or not. He sees all the way to the bottom of your soul. He knows all of those sins for which you've begged forgiveness a thousand times and yet they remain ever before you...
Your experience won't be the same as mine. It won't be the same as your friend's or even your siblings raised by the same parents. We all have different temperaments, body chemistries, and levels of sensitivity, and all of that is by God's design. But none of the details about your history can make you unlovable when God has already said He loves you.
~Brenda Waggoner
Fairy Tale Faith
(Carol Stream, Ill.: Tyndale, 2003), 31-32
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