Happy 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.  John 3:16

Having observed Pi day on 3/14, I couldn't just let March 16 go by without holding up John 3:16 for all to see once more. 

Look at the world as reported in the news media today. Does it look at all lovable? Do you read reports of disease, war, mayhem, and people acting hateful toward one another? Of course you do, we see it all the time in the news media of our time. It was no different in the day of our Lord Jesus, and yet He told Nicodemus those words we read in John 3:16. "For God so loved the world..." This world we see all around us, horrible news and all, God loved so much that He gave His only begotten Son. And that wasn't the end of it.

Had God just given His Son, the story would have closed at the cross. Two big things came to us from God's Son, faith and everlasting life. We believe in Him, we have faith that our Lord, God's Son, rose from the grave and went to be with His Father. We believe Him when He said that He would return and bring us home to be with Him forever; that is faith. We believe Him when He spoke of everlasting life and coming to the Father through Him. Faith and everlasting life are so intertwined in the Son that this wonderful verse concludes with them. Believe in the Son, Jesus Christ, and have eternal life. Praise God! 

Happy 3:16 Day!
Bucky