How I know Jesus Christ loves me (and absolutely everyone, for that matter):
1. He was the first to volunteer to be our Redeemer in the pre-mortal life
2. He lived a perfect life, shouldered criticism and trial, treated those who would hurt him with patience and forgiveness
3. When he was in the Garden of Gethsemane, he asked if he could be spared from the task--if he could be saved from the agony, but he finished by handing himself over to God's will (and God's will was to save His children)
4. He lived through all my pains; suffered for my sins, suffered for my fears, my anger, my heartbreak. He saw everything I would be and do, and he still went through with it
5. He let himself be taken and crucified, though he would rise again
6. Even though he knows my weaknesses, even though my sins caused him great pain, even though I have failed over and over again, Christ is still waiting with his arms wide open to receive me
7. He knows me better than I know myself, and he knows what hurts me, and he wants to heal me
8. He will be my advocate come the day of judgment. He will be the one to defend me (even if I feel I cannot defend myself)
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