What do you think about a person who constantly says, “Tell me you love me”? Doesn’t it sound like someone in an insecure relationship, craving reassurance? (Personally, it strikes me as the kind of thing a parrot owner might train his bird to blurt out to amuse friends.) How can such a request, oft-repeated, be healthy or admirable? It seems a desperate kind of begging. Yet God looks favorably on such desperate begging, addressed to him. He even encourages it. David—man after God’s heart, under the gun and on the run from his enemies—asks for just this kind of reassurance: [ Read More ]