For God So Loved

For God So Loved

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

All Christians seem to know this verse by heart. It is also a verse that is well recognized even by the non-Christian world. It is in fact the Gospel, in a nutshell!

But upon closer analysis, it really expresses the deepness of the love of God, and the extent to which He would go to simply prove how much he loves us!

Can you Remember when you were young and head over heels in love, perhaps even for the very first time?

I remember those days! My first Love was very deep and drove me to expend every waking moment thinking of ways to win my loves, love in return!

I’d tell her that; I love you “SO MUCH;” that “I’d climb the highest mountain, or swim the deepest ocean, or walk a million miles through a blinding snowstorm,” just to demonstrate to you how much I Love You.

Well, the love story in John 3:6 very simply equates something very similar about God’s love for you and me.

God is saying; “I love you “SO MUCH” that I am willing to demonstrate my love by taking an incredible action. The action that God took, was to “give his only son” to die to pay the purchase price of our sins to Save Us!

So the next time you read the love story recorded in John 3:16; stop on that line: “For God SO LOVED,” and think about how much he truly loves YOU, and the extent to which he has gone to prove it!

As the Bible says in I John 4:16; Truly, God is Love!

“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

As it goes in any Love Story, there can be a tremendous and exquisite joy or an intense deep heartbreak involved.

It all depends upon love being received or rejected. I can remember the deep pain of being rejected myself. It hurts! Surely, we all have experienced the pain of our love being rejected.

So it is with God, when people reject his love! God agonizes deeply over those who reject his love.

The Love of God, how rich and pure! How measureless and strong. It reaches to the highest star, and to the lowest Hell.

For God SO LOVED, He Gave All

by: Darrell G. Young