I heard a story a couple of weeks ago that I thought was really cool. It compares a little boy's love for something he created, to the love God has for us-His creation!!!!
"YOU ARE TWICE MINE"
A young boy once built a small sailboat. He spent weeks getting all the pieces needed, carving and painting the boat. Once he was finished it was the most beautiful sailboat he had ever seen, and when he looked at it he felt the love he had for his creation.
Everyday after school the boy would take his boat down to the creek and sail it until the sun went down. One day, after some rain, the current was much stronger and the boy could not keep up with his boat and it got lost.
Everyday he would go down to the creek, hoping to find his boat. After a few weeks, he passed by a pawn shop and there in the window was his boat!! It was scratched and torn a little bit from it's journey, but he knew it was the boat he lovingly made. He went inside to explain to the shop owner that it was his boat, but the owner told him he had to buy it if he wanted it.
The boy went home and emptied his piggy bank. The next day he gave everything he had to the shop owner and was able to buy back his boat. The boy took his boat home and said, "Little boat, I love you even more now for you are twice mine. Once because I made you, but then you were lost to me, and now I have bought you."
This is a comparison to God and us. God made us but because of the wrong things we have done, we get seperated from God. But God has paid the price to buy us back. That price was the life of His only son Jesus, who died on the cross. If we ask Him to take away our sin, He will. We can be His again - twice His, for He made us, and He bought us.
DAILY CHALLENGE!!!
Every day, fill in the following sentences and give them prayerfully to God.
God, something that amazes me about You is ______________. (character trait of God)
God, thank you for __________________________. (something God has done for you)
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