"For our soul is so specially loved of Him that is highest, that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures: that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may [fully] know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loveth us. And therefore we may with grace and His help stand in spiritual beholding, with everlasting marvel of this high, overpassing, inestimable Love that Almighty God hath to us of His Goodness."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 6)
"Look with wonder at the depth of the Father's marvelous love that He has lavished on us!"
1 John 3:1 (TPT)
We are especially loved by God, loved in a special and intense way, each one of us loved in a unique way that perfectly suits us and meets our deepest needs for love, acceptance and affection, loved for the unique and special person each of us is to Him. This love goes beyond all knowing or imagining. It is a love vaster than the heavens and deeper than the deepest sea. All earthly loves are just faint echoes of the immense and immeasurable love God has for us. It's like His love is a vast ocean and we are standing on the shore just dipping our toes into this love. It's also and sweet and tender love. We can think of the person on earth who has loved us the most, been the most tender and caring towards us, and see that our heavenly Father's love for us is infinitely more sweet and tender and sure than that earthly love. It's a love that accepts us just as we are with no demand for change, a love that goes on loving us when everyone else has given up on us, a love that always sees the best in us and won't ever let us down. He stands before us right now adoring us, looking at us with tenderness, delighting in everything about us, simply loving all that we are with all that He is. And so we can stand before Him right now, endlessly marvelling at such a love, the unconditional and faithful love we were made for and have always wanted, and we can just be in awe and wonder at this beautiful love, and be so happy and satisfied with Him, and with the way that He loves us!
A Prayer: I love the way You love me!