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b'Do you ever wonder, \\u201cWhere is God now? Doesn\\u2019t He love me?\\u201d\\nIsaiah 49:15-16 presents one of the most beautiful expressions\\u2014in all of Scripture\\u2014of God\\u2019s everlasting love for His people.\\nHere God contrasts His love with perhaps the closest of human bonds: that of a mother with her nursing child. As unlikely as it is, a woman could forget her child. Yet God says He will never forget us.\\nHe has inscribed\\u2014some translations even say \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153tattooed\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d\\u2014us on the palms of His hands!\\nWhy is this significant? Because our palms contain some of the most sensitive areas of skin on our bodies. Getting a tattoo on your palm is not only extremely painful but can also take months to heal.\\nYet when God says, \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands,\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d He is using figurative language to say He would go to the excruciating pain of having our name tattooed on His palms so that we would ever be before His face. In Christ, we are His people, and He loves us so much that He has literally gone through great pain to be with us (Isaiah 53:5-6; John 3:16).\\nYour name inscribed on God\\u2019s palm represents all of you\\u2014your fears, loneliness, circumstances, desires, and dreams. Everything that concerns you is always before Him.\\nHe loves you. \\n\\u2022 Our sin separates us from God, but because He loved us, Jesus\\u2014who is God\\u2014endured pain on the cross so that we could have a relationship with God through faith in Him. How could this truth change your perspective when God\\u2019s love feels distant? \\u2022 Read Psalm 42. Here David struggles with acknowledging God\\u2019s love while feeling far from it, even crying out to God, \\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153Why have You forgotten me?\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d (verse 9). How can this psalm provide comfort to you?\\nSee, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me. Isaiah 49:16 (NKJV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nIsaiah 49:15-16; Romans 8:35-39'