"For God so loved..."
We know those words, they are such familiar words. John 3:16. But let's stop for a moment and think about them. Do we really grasp the impact of that?
God loves us.
God so loved you.
What does that mean to us?
Not all of us have been shown the kind of love Jesus is talking about throughout our lives. Many of us haven't. Life experiences can change our view of love, distort it, or even cause us to no longer believe in it.
Or perhaps we've done so many things in our lifetime we feel we do not deserve the love of anyone, let alone the love of the living God.
We don't deserve God's love and we can't earn it, that's the point. But it is there none the less, for those who would accept it.
God's love motivated him to put a plan into action that pays for our sin and puts us back into a relationship with him. And it is the foundation of that love that we build off of.
We need eyes to see it and a mind to understand it. As Paul prayed, let us pray together for one another today.
"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." Eph 3:16-19 (NIV)
