A lot of the problems we get into in life come because we are searching for love—often in all the wrong places.
When we love God with all of our hearts, we will have the capacity to love people wholeheartedly and live out the exciting destiny God has for each of us.
Jesus loved the rich young ruler enough to offer him a way out of rule-following by asking him to make a decision to be close to him.
This parable will help us understand what it feels like to be lost and how God responds to that feeling by always trying to bring us home.
With insecurity, God never responds with criticism. He responds with a purpose to live for something beyond themselves.