When we are discouraged, when life circumstances have not unfolded as we thought we heard the Lord promise they would, when depression threatens and hopelessness sends its creeping tendrils around our hearts, God does not ask us to try harder or demand that we do better. He reminds us of His love, and then, as Jesus inquired of the Apostle Peter, our God inquires: "Lovest thou me?" (John 21:15).
Our hope lies not in the fact of our love for God, but in His love for us. If, when we focus on the sure fact of His love, there is a responding glimmer of reciprocal love in our own hearts, then we have what we need to move forward in faith.
Yes, Lord, I love You.
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