Have you ever received an amazing gift?  Perhaps something extravagant or lavish.  Something far beyond what you would do for yourself.  I can recall several gifts that i have received like that where I was truly overwhelmed.  When you receive such a gift you truly feel loved and appreciated.  You feel a sense of great connection to the giver of the gift.  That is the way that the Bible describes God’s love for us.  Let’s look together at what it says in I John 3. 

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.