“I knew God was allowing me to see myself as He saw me,” Crystal says. In God’s eyes, she was perfect, and that would never change, no matter what happened to her on earth, no matter what bad decisions she had made that had filled her with a sense of worthlessness. None of it mattered. Until this moment, Crystal had believed God couldn’t possibly love her, especially after the abuse she had suffered and the sins she had committed. Now, however, she knew she had based her beliefs on a lie—a lie God obliterated with his love.14
