We are the beloved of our Father. He declares it so. It is up to us to believe it and embrace it in our mind and heart. Our parents and teachers may have told us otherwise; our peers may have belittled us. Other voices have told us things about ourselves that are out of harmony with God’s declared and manifest love. The accuser does not want us to believe it. The greatest statement of God’s love for us is the gift of the beloved Son; the Messiah also came to make us His beloved bride. His Spirit enters us to fill us with God’s kind of love and embrace us with it at the same time. Lift up your heads and hearts; your are beloved.
“Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. (Jude 1–2 ESV)
