I will never read this passage of scripture from John without remembering a moment in a class I took on the Johannine literature in the New Testament (The Gospel of John and the Epistles of John) in my senior year of college.
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” (1 John 3:1)
The season of Lent is always a good time to meditate on the images of God we find in scripture, and many of those images are found in the book of Psalms in the Hebrew Scriptures.
Jesus was always pointing to the realm of God in his teachings. He was always calling people to live in the realm of God.
What are the greatest difficulties we can face? What seems to have the potential of separating us from the love of God?
Psalm 139 is a scripture that bears repeating often in times of challenge and uncertainty.