Do you remember the old adage of a young person, possibly a male or female sitting in the middle of a beautiful meadow with possibly a daisy in their hand picking off the petals one at a time saying, “He loves me” as they pick one petal, and as they pick the second petal, they would say “he loves me not”. The part of this game or better yet, this old superstition is the truth of the process would be found in the last petal in their hand, he loves me, he loves me not. For most of us we might try the best two out of three, until we got at least two that landed on “he loves me”. The truth is we want His love but for some crazy reason we still believe we have to earn His love. 1 John 3 gives us proof we never have to question whether He loves us or loves us not. It also gives us proof that it is not based on superstition but based on the words of God the Father, which is love.
1 John 3: 1-2 “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears,we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
1 John 3:9-10 “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.”
The love of God is such an awesome flower that blooms and the fragrance of it which we breathe in not only lets us sense the favor of God, but it implores us to share it by living and loving as the Father has loved us.
