This week we focused on God as our Father who listens to our prayers. God has made us holy through Jesus so we may approach Him, be in His presence, and ask for whatever we need.


Read 1 John 3:1-5 slowly and prayerfully.

1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.
5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. (ESV)


1. What kind of love does the Father give to us (verse 1)?

2. What will we be when we grow up (verse 2)?

3. What shall we do until then (verse 3)?

4. Why did Jesus appear to us (verse 5)?

5. What one phrase from this passage will you think about throughout today?