 that are very visceral and real. He wants to hug you and hold you and love you and direct you and guide you and like any parent, give you the very best. The apostle John would write, 1 John 3, 1, how great is the love of the Father. He's lavished on us that we should be called children of God and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it does not know him.