40-day Easter Journey – Day 19

March 10, 2015/Faith

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God is Love

John 3:16 For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

God loves us. Not because we are perfect or for anything that we can do for Him. He loves us because we are His creation. His children. Sin got in the way of Him being with us and because of that Jesus came to earth to die on the cross to get rid of our sins. The way we get that forgiveness is by believing that Jesus is the only way for us to get into a relationship with God. It’s hard to imagine the kind of love that dies for the person it loves, but that is how big God’s love for us is.

Activity: Take a dollar bill (the higher the denomination the better). Hold it up and ask the kids if they want it. Crumple it up, stomp on it, fold the corners down. Make it as undesirable looking as possible.

Ask again…. who wants this?

Explain that no matter what we’ve done, God still loves us and finds value in us because we are His creation. There’s nothing we can do to make God love us more and there’s nothing we can do to make God love us less. No matter what we’ve done, Jesus still came to earth to die for our sins. We can find forgiveness and peace when we accept Jesus as our Savior. And it’s all because of God’s love.

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