Our Father's Love

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Have you ever really thought about just how much God loves us?

I was watching my favorite video the other day. It is called A Father’s Love Letter. Someone took little snippets of verses from the Bible and put them together to form a love letter to us from God. It is beautiful and I get tears in my eyes every time I watch it.

Since God sees everything past, present, and future as present, He knew us before we were even conceived. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” Jeremiah 1:5. That means He knows all the babies who have been aborted also. God is so amazing. He never overlooks anything or anyone.

The Bible also tells us God rejoices over us with singing. “He will rejoice over you with singing” Zephaniah 3:17. Can you imagine? He sings over us. I am picturing a mother holding her baby in her arms and singing lullabies to her beloved child. According to the Bible that is apparently the way God cherishes us, and more.

He says He comforts us in our troubles, “we ourselves are comforted by God” 2 Corinthians 1:4. He is close to us when we are broken-hearted “The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart” Psalms 34:18. And He carries us as a shepherd carries a lamb “He will gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom” Isaiah 40:11.

If a parent is ever in a position where their child is in mortal danger, that parent will gladly lay down their life for their child. When I think about that it makes me realize that it would have been much easier for God to lay down His own life for us than to watch His Son be the one to die so we could be saved. That had to be absolute agony for Him. Yet, they both were more than willing to do their part to bring us back to Him, “Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ” 2Corinthians 5:18, “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins” 1 John 4:9-10.

The thought that hit me the strongest was where Jesus is praying for all of us and said, “that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me” John 17:23

Isn’t that an amazing thought. God says He loves us like He loves His Son. I had never thought about Him loving us as much as He loves Jesus, but He says He does.

I suppose the first clue as to His love for us is the fact that They made us in Their image. How could anyone not love a God who loves us with this kind of love?

Think about it.

In case you would like to watch the video I referred to, here is the link to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHBQQHSbavY

Enjoy