Who Loves You, Baby?

I love reading my Bible.  God is so good and He speaks to me me when I read His word.  Sometimes there are obvious things to learn:  thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not kill and so on.  We all need to know these things.  What truly fascinates me is the Michelle-designed encouragement that God gives me through His word.  It is mind blowing to me that God can take a sentence or phrase that countless numbers of people have read and translate it, through His Holy Spirit, into words that are meant exclusively for me. 

I have waited my whole life for someone to love me in a unique and unfailing way.  I think that we all desire this type of love - perfect, unfailing, divine love.  As much as we want our family and friends to provide this for us, they simply cannot do it.  We're human.  We fail sometimes or we disappoint or we just miss the boat on what our loved ones would wish for us to do or say. 

Not so with God.  He loves me with a perfect love.  He never misses an opportunity to tell me He loves me.  He has surrounded me with the beauty of His creation and the glory of nature to remind me of this.  He has placed people in my life who, in His wisdom He knows that I need,  These folks are on many days they are my earthly reminders of my heavenly father.  God thinks about me. 

I wish I could pour my heart out into this blog because I am truly overwhelmed by the love that God has for me.  We teach personalization of scripture in the 201 class and I think it's appropriate to end today's offering to you with an example of this.  Today, personalize John 3:16.  Who loves you, baby?  Your heavenly father loves you - that's who!  

[Traditional - NIV] For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  John 3:16



[Personalized] For God so loved Michelle that he gave his one and only Son [for Michelle], that when Michelle believes in him [she] shall not perish but [she]have eternal life.  John 3:16