April 13


Catching a Glimmer


You are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth to be his very own.

Deuteronomy 14:2 (NCV)


Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name.

Isaiah 43:1 (NIV)


I have a glimmer—just a faint glimmer of the love and desire of God. It’s nothing really, but to me, it’s something.

It’s these little kids we sponsor—kids from all over the world. They have become so special. The intense love I have for them, even though they are not mine, makes me want to make them mine. I think if I could, I would adopt them all. Really.

I look at their pictures on my desk and my heart is full to the brim. Is this how God feels for me? For you? Yes, even more so....

God has loved us with an intense love even though we were His enemies—set against Him. And even though it cost the very blood of His Son, He loved us enough to purchase our freedom. And now, He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing. He has adopted us. We are members of His Royal Family. We didn’t earn it nor did we deserve it, but the truth is, He’s crazy about us—as poor and as helpless as we are. Do you realize how much He loves you?

I like to think our pictures are on His heavenly desk, and He sighs over us ... anxious for that greatest of all homecomings—our arrival at His doorstep. This is what I look forward to—that moment when we fully realize the wonder and the splendor of the greatest love of the Greatest One—and us sharing with Him the never ending joy of our forever home.


Lord, open my eyes to more of Your love. Amen.