A picture of God's love

How would you draw God's love for you? 

Earlier this week, our seven year old drew this picture for me. She explained me to that my love was the 'rainbow love' and God's love was the 'big purple love.' Some of our children's artworks get recycled never to be seen again, but this one is definitely a keeper. 

It is easy to understand that she has a picture of my love for her through her experience of my physical and emotional day to day caring for her.

What I find more intriguing (and marvelous) is her idea of God's love for her. The more I look at her drawing the more I realise what a wonderful picture of God she must have in her heart.  She has faced great challenges in her short life, more than most of us will face in 70 or 80 years of life, and yet she has a revelation in her heart that God's love for her is far greater (at least three times!) than her mother's love for her. How true that is, my love for her doesn't come close to God's love for her and what He has done for her.

For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. John 3:16 AMP

As for God's love being 'purple', this wasn't a conscious decision by my daughter. Rather she explained to me, that she chose purple because she had run out of space in the line of rainbow hearts for a purple heart. I wonder though, if the Holy Spirit had a hand in the design, as purple is the colour positively associated with royalty. A reminder that God's son, Jesus, is the King of kings.

They will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them; for He is the Lord of lords and King of kings - and those with Him and on His side are chosen and called [elected] and loyal and faithful followers. Revelation 17:14 AMP

Also, the big purple heart is a reminder that we, as faithful followers, are a royal priesthood, who have received mercy and are loved unconditionally.

To you then who believe (who adhere to, trust in, and rely on Him) is the preciousness, .... But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. Once you were not a people [at all], but now you are God's people; once you were unpitied, but now you are pitied and have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:7, 9-10 AMP

Questions for today, how would you draw God's love for you? What is the picture of God like that you have in your heart? Can you dare to believe that you are part of a royal priesthood? 

Jesus is the perfect picture of God's perfect love for us.

And from Jesus Christ the faithful and trustworthy Witness, the Firstborn of the dead [first to be brought back to life] and the Prince (Ruler) of the kings of the earth. To Him Who ever loves us and has once [for all] loosed and freed us from our sins by His own blood, and formed us into a kingdom (a royal race), priests to His God and Father - to Him be the glory and the power and the majesty and the dominion throughout the ages and forever and ever. Amen (so be it). Revelation 1:5-6 AMP