Devotions
The Love of the Father
“For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son …” John3:16
I
always think that only a parent can comprehend or at least have a small
understanding of the love of God the Father, of how much God loves us his children.
When you become a father or a mother, you start to truly appreciate the love of
God; at least, that is what happened to me. When you first hold a tiny human
being in your arms who has no understanding of day or night, or knowledge of
left or right, who depends on you for absolutely everything and for whom you
are ready anytime to give your life, that is when you realize in your mind and
say that if God loves me as I love my child, then I am in good hands. When we
become parents, we also come to realize how much our parents loved us even
though sometimes we did not understand them or believe in their love.
Can
you imagine a mother dropping her infant from her hands? Impossible. So
impossible is God letting us fall from his hands (Isaiah 49:15). In God’s eyes
we are like that infant. We can’t do anything without him, and we absolutely
depend on him. Even though we may deceive ourselves and think we have got it
all figured out, we can’t distinguish right from left without him (John 15:5). God
loves us so much, even if we might not understand or see that love in the way
we want to see it. He showed his love once and for all by giving us what was
most precious to him, his only Son. The good news today is that God is always
looking out for us. At times, it is difficult to understand God or trust in his
love; at such moments, it is wise to stop trying to understand and instead try
blind trust. Don’t responsible parents wake up in the morning and work hard to
feed their children, clothe them, plan for their studies, take them to a doctor
when they are not well, and do so many other things responsible parents do?
Jesus said, “If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to
your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to
those who ask him” (Matthew 7:11).
Nothing
has more power in the life of a person than the fact of knowing that they are
loved. A child from a loving family is different from a child who did not
receive love from their parents. The first is always, or at least most of
the time, confident, happy and optimistic, always expecting good things to
happen to them. The second is worried, expecting the worst, and feels that he
constantly has to fight to survive. Mistrust and suspicion are his words of
order. Trusting God’s love for us elevate our lives to that level of the loved
child who is confident, happy and optimistic for the future. You are the loved
son and daughter of your heavenly Father, let the assurance of God’s love
change the way you live and behave; walk with confidence as a loved child of
the Most High. In this world where everything has been turned upside down,
where there is nothing reliable anymore, the love of God is the only anchor
that keeps us from total wreckage. Trust in that love and your life will never
be the same.
Posted : Mar 09, 2026