A Prayer about a Love like No Other

Ever-loving Father,

Wow us with this amazing news today! 

You have called us your children, 

and we really have become your children. 

Do we realize that this changes everything? 

Yes, it’s true, the world cannot understand 

why we spend half our Sundays at church worshiping you, 

because they can’t see that it’s a family reunion, 

that we are all gathered together as your children 

(and that we actually kind of get along even when we don’t) 

because you first loved us, 

and we want to tell you how much we love you (see 1 John 3:1; 4:19).

Even more amazingly, 

not only did you love us 

and adopt us as your children 

and give us an amazing inheritance, 

you are growing us up to be just like Jesus: 

“…but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, 

because we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2).

Oh Lord, multiply our joy today with this good news!

Oh Lord, hasten the day when we see our Savior 

and become like him.

In Jesus’ transforming name. Amen. 

Read 1 John 3:1-2; 4:7-19.