Guess How Much He Loves You
Jessalyn Hutto
So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.” (1 John 4:16 ESV)
Are you familiar with the sweet storybookGuess How Much I Love You? It is a favorite bedtime story for our family. Throughout its beautifully illustrated pages, Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare compete to describe exactly how much they love one another. With each charming page, their descriptions of their love grows. First it is just the length between their outstretched hands, then it is as high as they can hop, until finally Big Nubrown Hare whispers to his sleeping son, “I love you all the way to the moon and back,” besting his son’s previous declaration: “I love you to the moon.” Though the son’s love for his father is genuine and enthusiastic, his father’s love is always greater.
Can you imagine playing this game with our Heavenly Father? “Dear God, guess how much I love you?” Well, the game would pretty much end right there. God would say something like, “Oh, I know exactly how much you love me. You hated me. Mocked me. In fact, you waged war against me until I lavished my love upon you and put my Spirit within you. Now my Spirit is at work, renewing your heart and mind, and causing you to trust me more with each passing day. He is causing you to love me and to enjoy my love. You now love me, because I first loved you.”...
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