A little while later, her newly born baby held in her arms for the first time, she explained that she'd felt such love for the child that she was overwhelmed beyond anything she thought possible ... because she realized This person is part of me. And because she knew then that nothing could change the attachment she felt to her child.
She summed up her feelings by saying no matter what her child did and regardless of what mistakes he made, she knew that it was impossible for her to ever stop loving him ... and neither could anything keep her from wanting to love and protect him.
Her words gave me just the slightest glimpse of what God's love for us must be like ... times a thousand billions, and more ... if it were possible for us to grasp and comprehend it.
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
- Genesis 1:27
We love because he first loved us.
-1 John 4:19
The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him.
This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
-1 John 2:4-6
