ONE Love

What we do for our kids to show them we love them.

Santa: we create magic to fill the imaginations of children with wonder and joy. Arguably a little consumerism too.

Gifts: We shower them with gifts. We ask them for their hearts request. We try to find the exact object of their desire and place it in front of their faces for an entire month wrapped in beauty to engage their excitement. We hope that when they open those presents they laugh, and play. Their eyes twinkle as they pour over their new treasure.

Sacrifice and stress: When we don’t have the resources to acquire their desire. We despair. We feel about this big. We cant

What God did to His kid to show you what Love is and how much he loves you.

did he love his son?

Isaiah 42:1 ESV

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.

John 3:35 ESV

The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

“This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased”

did he love his creation more?

1 John 4:9 ESV

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

Ephesians 2:4–5 ESV

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Why Then?

Ephesians 5:2 ESV

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Model of Costly Love

John 15:12–13 ESV

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.