我還記得很小的時候，第一次透過醫院育嬰室的窗戶看到一個新生兒的情景。年幼無知的我，在看到那皺巴巴、沒有頭髮，還頂著錐形頭的小嬰孩時，感到非常失望。但那嬰孩的母親卻站在我們身旁，不停地對每個人說﹕「他是不是很可愛？」多年後，我又想起這一幕，因為我從視頻裡看到，一位年輕的父親對剛出生的女兒溫柔地唱著《你真美麗》。對那位沉醉在喜悅中的父親來說，這小嬰孩是世上最美麗的創造。

上帝也是這樣看待我們嗎？以弗所書2章10節說，我們是祂的「工作」，是祂的傑作。當我們意識到自己有許多軟弱不足之處時，可能很難接受上帝是多麼愛我們，也很難相信祂看我們為寶貴。但上帝愛我們，不是因為我們可愛或值得祂的愛（3-4節），而是因為祂就是愛（約翰一書4章8節）。上帝的愛是一種恩典，當我們死在過犯與罪惡之中時，祂藉著耶穌的犧牲使我們在祂裡面活過來（以弗所書2章5、8節），表明祂深愛著我們。

上帝的愛並非飄搖不定，而是永不改變的！祂愛不完美、無藥可救的人，也愛軟弱、生活一團糟的人。當我們軟弱跌倒時，祂會在那裡把我們扶起來。我們是祂的寶貝，對祂來說，我們是如此美麗。

I was very young when I peered through a hospital nursery window and saw a newborn for the first time. In my ignorance, I was dismayed to see a tiny, wrinkly child with a hairless, cone-shaped head. The baby’s mother standing near us, however, couldn’t stop asking everyone, “Isn’t he gorgeous?” I was reminded of that moment when I saw a video of a young dad tenderly singing the song, “You Are So Beautiful” to his baby girl. To her enraptured daddy, the little girl was the most beautiful thing ever created.

Is that how God looks at us? Ephesians 2:10 says that we’re His “handiwork”—His masterpiece. Aware of our own failings, it may be hard for us to accept how much He loves us or to believe that we could ever be of value to Him. But God doesn’t love us because we deserve love (vv. 3–4); He loves us because He is love (1 John 4:8). His love is one of grace, and He showed the depth of it when, through Jesus’ sacrifice, He made us alive in Him when we were dead in our sins (Ephesians 2:5, 8).

God’s love isn’t fickle. It’s constant. He loves the imperfect, the broken, those who are weak and those who mess up. When we fall, He’s there to lift us up. We’re His treasure, and we’re so beautiful to Him.