What Kind of Love

1John 3:1 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.

See what kind of love the Father has shown Though orphaned in the world and left to die, To be adopted as your child, by your name, known.

And finding me lifeless nearly dead as a stone, You gathered me close, having heard my cry; See what kind of love the Father has shown.

Raised as your child, nevermore alone, I walk the wide world neath my Father’s blue sky As your adopted child, by your name, known

In desperate delusion, I set off to roam To seek a better blessing, to taste and to try To see what kind of love the Father has shown.

In cunning deceit, in rebellion I’d flown Defamed the family name, lived hiding in a lie Though your adopted child, by your name, known.

Now broken and shoeless, I return home, Offering my life, my redemption to buy. I see what kind of love the Father has show Am your adopted child by your name, known.

© Randy Edwards artwork: Gustave Dore #Christianity #villanelle #1John