However, a few weeks ago, I started a Facebook page for the Deniliquin Salvation Army.
With a lot of help from others, I have learnt how to post a comment and add pictures to my page. If you are on Facebook, look us up!
I was so excited the other day, when I posted about our Community Food Pantry and I got some likes. People were giving me the thumbs up!
How Aussie is that? They were saying “good job” and giving me some encouragement to keep going.
Did you know the ‘like’ icon designer, Justin Rosenstein, said he wanted to help create “a world in which people uplift each other rather than tear each other down”.
I think Rosenstein’s creation speaks to our hardwired need for affirmation and connection. We want to know that others know us, notice us—and, yes, even like us.
Even though the ‘like’ icon is fairly new, designed in 2009, our hunger to know and be known is as old as God’s creation of man.
We all want approval or to be liked by someone. We have a God whose love goes so much deeper than a digital nod or a thumbs up.
We can trust the One who loves us completely.
God’s love is not based on our performance or worthiness. God loves us unconditionally.
You may find it hard to believe. You may even feel you don’t deserve it.
You may ask, does God really love me … even with all the things I have done?
The Bible is proof of God’s love, and it repeats His love for us from one end to the other.
Story after story shows God’s love for us. Jeremiah 31:3, says “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love”.
God is saying today that he not only ‘likes’ you, He loves you.
~ Contributed by Sandra Whyborn of the Deniliquin Salvation Army, on behalf of the Combined Churches of Deniliquin.
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