God Our Father Loves His Children

Pre-Easter Theme: What Jesus Taught Us

Theme for this week: God Loves Us

March 14, 2022 (Monday)

Nearly everything we know about the life and ministry of Jesus comes from the Bible’s four Gospel books – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The gospels inform us about who Jesus was and what he taught. Here’s an example of His teaching: “”Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? And yet not one of them is forgotten before God. “Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are of more value than many sparrows” (Luke 12:6-7 NAS).

Jesus taught us to think of God as our Father. Our relationship to God is like the loving relationship between parent and child. Like a loving parent, God knows and cares deeply for each of us.

Children in churches learn simple songs about Jesus. One such song goes like this: “Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white, They are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world.”

Like God, we humans have a mind, emotions, and a will. God created us like Himself so that we could have a personal relationship with Him. But, sad to say, many people have exercised their will and have decided against getting to know God. As the Book of Isaiah says, “we have turned every one to his own way.”

God,who is rich in love and mercy, has made a way for us to be reconciled to our Heavenly Father through faith in His Son Jesus, who became a man and died in our place on a cross.

The words of a hymn, written by Isaac Watts, begin with, “Alas, and did my Savior bleed,” and the hymn was known by that title for 178 years before Ralph Hudson added the refrain with the words, “At the cross,” and today the hymn is known by many of us as, “At the Cross.”

At The Cross


Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed? Old tune