What is it about a scene with a father and a young daughter that is so gripping? Is it the slight restoration of the human condition, revealing that possibly deep down people are drawn to love and compassion? Is the pure love that exudes from innocent eyes of the young girl? As I sit here, getting ready for finals, a father and daughter sit a few tables away from me enjoying cocoa together. I catch little parts of the conversation, but the stuff that really gets me is the way he looks at her. Without overly expressive emotions, his eyes proclaim his love and absolute adoration of his young daughter.
This brought me to think about the passage in the Luke talking about hating your daughter in comparison to the love of Christ. Typically this verse gives me the willies and causes me to question my entire walk, but today it solidified the love Christ has for us. Image the way that father loved his daughter, as they walked hand in hand, sipping cocoa on a cold day. Christ's love for us blows that out of the water and in comparison the love that can be experienced with him also cannot be paralleled.
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just found your blog. this is a beautiful picture of Christ's love for us. keep writing.
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