A friend said something on my podcast that I’ve never forgotten: “For years, I knew I was saved, but I didn’t know I was loved.” I could relate. You can believe all the right things about God and still spend your whole life feeling like He’s tolerating you. But God isn’t just tolerating you. He’s not wincing at your failures or holding His breath through your struggles. He knew everything about you before you took your first breath, and He chose to love you then. Then went to the cross to prove it.