There are mornings I wake up and before my feet even hit the floor, the weight of the week ahead is already sitting on my chest. The to-do list. The things I said I’d do and didn’t. The places I feel like I’m falling short. And in that moment it’s easy to forget who I actually am.
That’s exactly what this week’s devotional is about. Because John didn’t write 1 John 3:1 for people who had it all together. He wrote it for the rest of us.
“What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it — we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are.”
John opens with something he wants us to stop and actually feel. He calls it marvelous love — and he means that literally. This is a love that is amazing, unconditional, unlimited, out of this world. A love better than any love we’ve known or can fully imagine.
And God doesn’t just offer this love from a distance. John says He freely gives it. He bestows it. He lavishes it. There are no limits, no conditions, no ceiling on how much. It comes to us in infinite quantities — not because we earned it, but because that’s simply who God is.
Then John says: look at it. Pay attention. Focus. Because what’s coming next is going to change how you see yourself—
We are called children of God. And that’s who we really are.
Not someday.
Not after we get it together.
Not next week or next year.
The moment we make Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior — that very moment — we become a child of God. Right now. As we are.
And as God’s child, here’s what’s already true of you:
- Your sins are forgiven.
- You have an eternal inheritance.
- You have peace that surpasses all human understanding.
- You have God’s power working in your life and mind.
- The Holy Spirit dwells in your heart — guiding you, comforting you.
- You have unlimited access to the Heavenly Father in prayer.
And that’s just the beginning.
Whatever this week holds — however hard, however uncertain, however loud — remember this: your Heavenly Father calls you HIS child. And in Jesus Christ, you are an heir to every one of God’s promises.
That’s who you really are.
— Jules & Lane