God’s Love

What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis,
the fact that I know God,
but the larger fact which underlies it - that He knows me.

I am graven on the palms of His hands.

I am never out of His mind.

All my knowledge of Him depends on His
sustained initiative in knowing me.

I know Him because He first knew me, and
continues to know me.

He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me,
or His attention distracted from me,
and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

This is momentous knowledge.

There is unspeakable comfort...in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love is utterly realistic,
based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me,
so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me,
in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself,
and quench His determination to bless me.

J I Packer ‘Knowing God’