What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. —1 John 3:1 (MSG) We are his children, his cherished treasures and his pearls of great price. In this world filled with shattered dreams, populated with the broken hearted and abandoned, these superlatives sound like a hopelessly naïve exaggeration, but God is our own true love. We are his precious, priceless and beloved children. Our own true love loves us with an everlasting, no-matter-what love. We are loved and accepted and embraced by God. Quite naturally, we want to please God. We want, as the cliché ...