PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Luke 3:21-38

What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?

“You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.” (Luke 3:22)
This passage reminds me of when God created Adam and Eve.
The Spirit of God hovers over the waters, like a dove (Genesis 1:2).
Adam and Eve are created from comes up out of these waters.
And God breathes the Spirit of life, and they become fully alive!
And with pleasure and love, God declares it all – and them – very good (Genesis 1:31).
Our world has become a “very bad” mess, and God does not love what it has become.
But it was that creation love that determined to send a human to restore it (Genesis 3:15).
And through the generations of humankind, God kept working until the day of Jesus.
The generations that included David and Abraham and went back all the way to Adam.
“Jesus was… the son of Adam, the son of God.” (Luke 3:38)
Just as Adam was the son of God, Jesus is now declared God’s child.
That is, he is the kind of human that God loves, with whom God is pleased.
Through Jesus, we receive the right to be called “children of God” (John 1:12)
Can you hear God saying, ‘You are my child, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’
PRAYER
Lord, may your Spirit hover over me, and assure me – despite my sin – that by grace I am God’s much-loved child too.