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“God So Loved the World”
Whenever you wonder how much God loves you, look to the cross. The passage below (this week’s memory work) summarizes how much loves us. And the answer you know. He loved us enough to send his firstborn. His only begotten. That which is most precious to Him. God the Father loves us that much. A good way to visualize that love is to hold your hands straight out to the side, reach as far as you can left and right, and then imagine those hands nailed to a cross. God loves us that much.
The passage below is one of the most famous. Often you’ll see someone in a crowd at a sporting event with JOHN 3:16 on a sign waving it whenever the television cameras pan their way. Many think this passage is a fitting summary of the gospel.
The passage also tells us why God loved us so much. He sent his son that we might have eternal life. That we might live forever with God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, and all the sainted dead. Can you imagine eternal life? It’s hard for us in this realm so dominated by time to envision the timeless. Jesus described heaven as the place where there are no moths or rust to corrupt and where no thieves break through to steal. In Revelation it is described as the place of no more tears or sorrow: a place of beautiful and precious things where there is no night. Can you imagine such a place?
Thanks to God we can do more that imagine it. We can see it one day. He loves us that much.
