Week 2 - Precious in God’s eyes

WEEK 2                          Precious in God’s eyes                     28-10-2022

God is seeking me. God is looking at me with a loving gaze. He tells me: “You are precious in my eyes.” He longs for me and his love for me came first.

I might wish to ask that I may discover that God is seeking me: that I may become aware that God is longing for me.

Music: Nada te turbe. Taizé

Nada te turbe,

nada te espante,

quien a Dios tiene,

nada le falta.

Nada te turbe,

nada te espante.

Solo Dios basta.

Nothing can trouble,

nothing can frighten.

Those who seek God

shall never go wanting.

Nothing can trouble,

nothing can frighten.

God alone fills us.

Text: 1 John 4, 7-12

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. 

What do these words evoke in me? What do I feel when I read and listen to this message?

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He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 

I think about all the people in my own life who have been a ‘a gift from heaven’.

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In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. 

For God I am also a ‘gift from heaven’. How could I show both God and all the people I come into contact with that I am a ‘gift from heaven’?

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Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Nobody has ever seen God. And yet, I consider what I have experienced as signs of God’s presence in my life.

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