Daily Discipleship - Day 303: What Kind of Love the Father Has
May 3, 2026
Daily Discipleship • Day 303 • Saturday, February 27, 2027
What Kind of Love the Father Has
1 John 3:1–2
Pleasant Springs Church • ps-church.com
William MacDonald — beloved Bible teacher and author of Believer's Bible Commentary, whose devotional writing on 1 John has brought generations of readers face to face with the lavishness of God’s love.
ποταπήν
potapēn · Greek NT“what kind of / what manner of”
potapos is an exclamatory word of astonishment—'from what country or of what sort?' It expresses bewildered wonder at the quality and category of something. John does not merely say 'what great love'—he marvels that such love is possible at all.
John calls his readers to stop and look—‘See what kind of love.’ This is not casual glancing; it is deliberate, sustained wonder. The love in view is so unusual, so foreign to human categories, that the world cannot recognize those who bear it, because the world did not recognize its Source.
MacDonald marvels that the identity ‘children of God’ is not a future aspiration but a present reality: ‘and so we are.’ What we will yet become is still unfolding, but who we are is already settled. Sit with that today. You are not merely forgiven—you are family.
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