“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are!”
1 John 3:1
At age 17 I spent eight months in a boys’ reformatory. Part of the state’s obligation to youth in custody was education. I had already dropped out of school two years earlier, yet one teacher there took a particular interest in me and would constantly encourage me to enroll in the accelerated high school program. Eventually, I succumbed to her persistence, and before I knew it, I had completed enough credits to earn a high school diploma.
On the day we were to graduate, the teacher was incredibly proud of me, so much so that I felt embarrassed. She saw me for what I could become, while I saw myself as merely a failure. She had a great deal more confidence in me than I had in myself!
Often, we find it difficult to accept and celebrate God’s lavish love for us. We struggle to live as His children. But God sees us as we are in Him; what we will be fully when we are with Him in glory. He knows our story is not yet finished. Trust what He sees in you. He’s known every detail of the days of your life before one of them ever came to be.
On the day we were to graduate, the teacher was incredibly proud of me, so much so that I felt embarrassed. She saw me for what I could become, while I saw myself as merely a failure. She had a great deal more confidence in me than I had in myself!
Often, we find it difficult to accept and celebrate God’s lavish love for us. We struggle to live as His children. But God sees us as we are in Him; what we will be fully when we are with Him in glory. He knows our story is not yet finished. Trust what He sees in you. He’s known every detail of the days of your life before one of them ever came to be.
Scripture Focus
1 John 3:1-10
Insight
Father, give me eyes to see what You see in me. Write the story of my life with its perfect ending in eternity with You one day. Amen
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