You have received undeserved love and grace from Jesus and have been adopted by God the Father.

“Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?” (Ruth 2:10)

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom 5:8)

“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1Jn 4:10)

“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us…made us alive together with Christ” (Eph 2:4,5)

“And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us” (Eph 5:2)

“By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.” (1Jn 3:16)

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (Jn 3:16)

“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.” (Rom 8:15)

“To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Rev 1:5)

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Gal 2:20)

“Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.” (1Jn 3:1)

“But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.” (Gal 4:4-5)

“And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!” (Gal 4:6)

“having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will” (Eph 1:5)

“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right [exousia] to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born [gennao], not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (Jn 1:12-13)

Reading: Ruth 1-2; Mk 11