By asking a simple question each night of their children, my friends have taught a life-giving catechism. They ask: "What does God say when he looks at you?" The children respond, "He says, 'I sure do love that little girl!'" or "I sure do love that little boy!"
When asked this same question, what is your gut response? Do you feel that God loves you with a reckless abandon, or out of mere obligation? Or that perhaps, he is disappointed in you? Share what you honestly think God says when he looks at you.
Alternatively, use this at the end of a study on God's love and ask, "What did you think prior to this study that God said when he looked at you? What do you now think? How can you live out that identity?"
