Methodology
The love letter is written in such a way that you can say the statements to the children. You don't necessarily have to mention the Bible passages each time, but of course you can.
One way is to tell this letter to the children after the Nighttime creation game.
Especially if you've done it at night, on a hopefully clear night, you can direct the listeners' gaze upward to the starry sky at the beginning. This lets one make the introduction about how the one who stretches out the starry sky for us like a tent (Isaiah 40) loves us so infinitely.
Following this, one can speak the love letter to them and also emphasize that this is how God feels about each and every one of them.
From Isaiah 40, I have noted below some statements that are meant to glorify God and that fit well with the devotional.
The Love Letter
He knows you intimately, even when you may not yet know Him.
Psalm 139:1
He knows when you get up and when you go to sleep.
Psalm 139:2
He knows all your ways.
Psalm 139:3
He has numbered all the hairs of your head.
Matthew 10:30
He created you in his image.
1 Genesis 1:27
By him you live and exist.
Acts 17:28
You are his child.
Acts 17:28
He knew you before you were born.
Jeremiah 1:5
He called you when he planned creation.
Ephesians 1:11
You were not an accident. He wrote every single day of your life in His book.
Psalm 139:15-16
He determined the time and place of your birth and where you would live.
Acts 17:26
He created you in an amazing and miraculous way.
Psalm 139:14
He artfully fashioned you in your mother's womb.
Psalm 139:13
He brought you forth in the day of your birth.
Psalm 71:6
He does not forsake you; never does he turn away from you.
Hebrews 13:5
He is not far from you or angry with you. He is love in you.
1 John 4:16
He desires nothing more than to lavish His love on you.
1 John 3:1
He offers you more than any father on earth ever could.
Luke 11:13
He is the perfect Father.
Matthew 5:48
All the good things you receive come from him.
Jacob 1:17
He satisfies all your needs and provides for you.
Matthew 6:31-33
He has plans for you that are full of future and hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
He loves you with a love that will never cease.
Jeremiah 31:3
His good thoughts toward you are as numerous as the sand on the seashore.
Jeremiah 29:11
He rejoices over you so much that I can only exult.
Zephaniah 3:17
He will never cease to do you good.
Jeremiah 32:40
You are a precious treasure to him.
2 Deuteronomy 19:5
He deeply desires to establish you firmly and give support to your life.
Jeremiah 32:41
He wants to show you great and incomprehensible things.
Jeremiah 33:3
If thou wilt seek him with all thine heart, he will let himself be found of thee.
5 Deuteronomy 4:29
Have your delight in him - he will give you what you long for.
Psalm 37:4
He Himself has put these desires and longings within you
Philippians 2:13
He can do much more for you than you can imagine.
Ephesians 3:20
He is the one who encourages you the most.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
When your heart is broken, he is near to you.
Psalm 34:18
As a shepherd carries a lamb, so he carries you by his heart.
Isaiah 40:11
One day he will wipe away every tear from your eyes.
Revelation 21:3-4
And he will take away all the pain of your life.
Revelation 21:3-4
He is your Father and He loves you just as He loves His Son Jesus.
John 17:2
Jesus reflects His nature in a perfect way.
Hebrews 1:3
He came into this world to show that he is not against you, but for you.
Romans 8:32
He came to tell you that he no longer imputes your sins to you.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Jesus died so that you and he could be reconciled.
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
His death was the most extreme expression of his love for you.
1 John 4:10
He gave up everything for you because he wanted to win your love.
Romans 8:31-32
When you accept the gift Jesus gives you, you receive His love.
1 John 2:23
Nothing can ever separate you from His love.
Romans 8:38-39
Come home to him so you can have the best party heaven has ever seen.
Luke 15:7
He has always been your father and will always be a father to you.
Ephesians 3:14-15
He now asks you, Will you be my child?
John 1:12-13
He waits for you.
Luke 15:11-32
Statements from Isaiah 40
12 Who has measured the waters with the hollow of his hand? Who hath marked out the heavens with a span, and compassed the dust of the earth in a measure? Who has weighed the mountains with scales, and the hills with scales?
13 Who hath searched out the mind of the LORD, and who hath instructed him for counsel?
14 Whom did He ask for counsel, that He might make Him understanding, and teach Him the way of right, and teach Him knowledge, and show Him the way of understanding?
15 ... he lifts up the isles like a speck of dust!
18 To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye set by his side?
22 It is he who is enthroned above the circle of the earth, and before whom its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; who spreads out the heavens like a veil, and stretches them out like a tent to dwell in;
25 To whom then will ye liken me, to whom shall I be like?" saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see, Who created these? He that bringeth forth their host numbered, he calleth them all by name. So great is his power, and so strong is he, that not one is missed.
28 Do you not know, have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, who created the ends of the earth, does not grow weary nor faint; his understanding is inexhaustible!
29 He gives strength to the weary, and fortitude enough to the impotent.
30 Boys grow weary and faint, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who wait on the LORD get new strength, that they may mount up with wings like eagles, that they may run and not grow faint, that they may walk and not grow weary.
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Just verse 30 is a good way to end by adapting it to the appropriate audience (e.g. Ameisli, Jungschi, Teenie, Leiter, etc.).
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