As much as we want to be loved, and it's a driving force in life, we're afraid of it. It's a vulnerable thing. So, we constantly defend ourselves before it happens. The end result is that here is this God who's just dying to love us, but we're thinking in human terms because we don't want to get hurt, and we don't want to look stupid. But he's just dying to love us.
Life is full of hard times.
The dog's going to get hit by a car. The kid's going to run away from home. The doctor's going to tell you it's cancer. Tragically, that's life. But on your very, very, very worst day, the God who created you loved you enough to die for you.