Zephaniah 3:17-18 (NIV) 17 The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." 18 "The sorrows for the appointed feasts I will remove from you; they are a burden and a reproach to you.
Hosea 14:4 (NIV) I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
Jeremiah 32:41 (NIV) I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us. --Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979)
