His love doesn’t always arrive the way you expect it to. It doesn’t always look like open doors and answered prayers and easy seasons. Sometimes it looks like the opposite — and that’s exactly what makes it so easy to miss. This is an invitation to look again at your life, and recognize all the ways God has already been showing up for you.

God’s love language

If you’ve been wondering whether God loves you, look at how he’s been showing it:

• the doors he closed that would’ve broken you
• the people he removed that you’d thanked him for later
• the rest he’s been forcing you to take

the doors he closed that would’ve broken you

– Jacqueline Whitney

• the slowness he’s been requiring of you
• the quiet seasons that protected your peace
• the timing that didn’t make sense at the time
• the answered prayers you didn’t recognize as answers
• the protection from things you’ll never know about
• the small mercies hidden in your hardest days
• the people he sent at the exact right moment
• the dreams he’s been refining in you
• the peace he’s been quietly cultivating

His love doesn’t always look like what you expect. It often looks like what you needed instead of what you wanted. He’s been loving you in a thousand ways you’ve been missing. Look again.

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.