The Bible is full of people who have learned from God how to be friends that understand, connect with, admire, challenge, and love each other.
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.
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.
God’s forgiveness and love can soften even our most ungrateful hearts and motivate us to treat others around us with love and compassion.
With insecurity, God never responds with criticism. He responds with a purpose to live for something beyond themselves.
Building our convictions on the Bible will help us trust God to meet our present needs and to fulfill His plans for our lives and our families.
Once our faith in God is strong, it becomes easy to overcome the temptation to be cynical in human relationships.