At one time, I thought that God was to supply all my "wants", for I perceived that wants were needs. I was often disappointed in what I saw as His lack of supply until I realized that my needs had always been met, just not my desires for things that weren't really needs.
Along with this misconception, I had the idea that God showed love toward us by giving us a pleasant existence without trials, sickness or hardship. Then I read about a pastor who had been imprisoned in a communist country and made to walk around and around in his cell every day like a horse on a tether line. His minimal ration of food and his sleeping conditions had rendered his body extremely weak. In this condition he was sent to a hard labor camp in Siberia. After his release, he said that what had sustained him during that time of extreme hardship was the love of God. He had even composed a little song about how God's love had made the ice of Siberia melt. His experience showed me that I had no concept of the love of God! I'm glad to say my perspectives are changing.
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