God loves you. That is a familiar refrain for most of us. So familiar it has all but lost its power, but it is a profound truth we cannot take for granted. He did not have to love us, to pursue us, or to engage with us at all. In spite of this, he chose to know us intimately and pursue us in love. There is nothing in us that would merit this or that would draw him to us. Yet he loves the unlovely and calls us to love him as we should.