that we should be called children of God! (1 John 3:1a NIV)
Sometimes you have great success in our work. There is a great sense of accomplishment as you look back at what you’ve done during the day, on what you’ve created, on a difficult problem you’ve solved, or look back over a longer time period on a project you have led or been part of that has successfully completed. At those times, remember that God loves you!
For many times of your life, you settle into a regular routine: you get up, you go to work or school, and you come home, relax, play and repeat. There is no great sense of accomplishment, but there is also no dissatisfaction—life is good, and the stability of the routine is reassuring. At those times, remember that God loves you!
Then there are times when life seems to be spiraling out of control. Circumstances seem to be conspiring against you. You don’t know if you are on the list of people to be laid off in the next round of layoffs, your car is broken down, the bills are piling up, family members are sick, or people are just treating you unkindly. At those times, remember that God loves you!
God is madly in love with you! He calls you his son or daughter! Turn your attention away from your work experiences, and focus on the love Christ has for you. As you focus on God’s love, you will find the true source of peace and joy. God will place a new song in your heart, and the smile on your face will come from knowing that you are God’s child, from knowing that God loves you.
Prayer
Father, root us and establish us in your love—that same love that redeemed us from our sins. Give us the power to grasp how wide and long and high and deep Christ’s love is for us. Amen
Ephesians 3:17-19 NIV
I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
1 John 3:1–3 NIV
See what great 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 Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure".
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