Almighty God, our Father, created the cosmic universe and transformed a water-covered blob of matter into Planet Earth, throbbing with plants and animal life.

On the sixth day of Earth’s creation week, He created humans in His own image as His very own children in the family of God. To further enhance the lives of His children, God crowned creation week by reserving the seventh day for His sons and daughters to rest from physical labor and to socialize while communicating with their Father and worshiping His divinity as the Creator of all life.

“The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27

Unlike phony gods of stone and meaningless ritual, our Father God is alive, caring for His human children with love and justice. We respond by worshiping Him with love, not fear. When we call to Him in prayer, He will answer.

Humans were created as man and woman with the ability to sense the emotion of love with an inherent attraction to be drawn together, jointly experiencing the joy of love.

Our Father God endowed a human couple with the power to create their own human families. At the birth of their very own child, human parents experience love in action and a clearer glimpse of the boundless love of our heavenly Father for the human children He created in the family of God.

True love’s range of emotions is boundless. When the jealousy and hate virus inspired Cain to kill his brother in a moment of passion, the parents’ love for their sons would have crushed their hearts in agony.

Our Father in heaven likely shared that sorrow of a lost human child. Think of the unimaginable agony the Creator of the universe endured observing the torture and death of His only begotten Son, Jesus, the sinless big brother of all human children in the family of God. And think of the joy in heaven when even one sinful child of God repents and, like the prodigal son, returns to the welcoming open arms of our Father in heaven.

Human parents were given a glimpse of the Father’s love for them and the agony the Father must have felt giving up His only begotten Son to crucifixion in an effort to welcome home the prodigal children to the family of God. Jesus Christ is our sinless, big brother who has demonstrated the Father’s perfect love in action.

John the Revelator describes last day saints as those who “obey the commandments of God and remain faithful to Jesus.” Revelation 14:12 The commandments were carved on stone to help a band of largely illiterate, newly freed slaves understand God’s perfect character of love and justice. The ministry of Jesus lived that perfect family love in daily action. The Apostle Paul illustrated the specific character traits seen in the daily life of a child of Father God who has turned from sin with the power of the Holy Spirit and keeps the commandments by living lives radiating God’s love.

“Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23 “Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience… Forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.” Colossians 3:12-13

“And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:13

Children of God our Father, walking daily in the footsteps of Jesus Christ, discover assurance of abundant living and a peace that surpasses all understanding.

“God is love, and
We’re His little children.
God is love,
We would be like Him.

“Tis’ love that makes us happy,
Tis loves that smooths the way,
It helps us mind,
It makes us kind,
To others every day.”
A Children’s Hymn