Opening my devotional this morning I was a little disappointed to read John 3:16. This isnt going to be challenging, I thought, Ive heard this sermon a thousand times. After praying about it & re-reading the verse God really softened my heart to it. I quickly realized that Ive become so immune to seeing For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. on every Christmas bulletin, twitter bio, & tattoo that Ive been ignoring its power. I read the story of Abraham & Isaac all the time when I need a reminder to be obedient to God & his Law. I always think, Wow! Abraham loves God SO much to kill his own child for him! Why is that so astonishing & nobel to me that Abraham loves God that much but God loving ME that much in John 3:16 is quotidian? I researched commentary for John 3:16 for most of my morning & it brought me to tears. How could I have spent the latter of my Christian life ignoring the righteousness & sovereignty of this verse?! As ashamed as I feel I am equally excited to share this discovery to my Christian brothers & sisters- so that we all remember every word is God-breathed & meant to be as impactful the 738th time reading it as the first. The dread power that man has ever conceived—that is not God; the pursuing vengeance that sin has ever imagined—that is not God; the unsatisfied anger that sacrifice has ever suggested—that is not God. But all that human thought has ever gathered of tenderness, forgiveness, love, in the relation of father to only child—all this is, in the faintness of an earth-drawn picture, an approach to the true idea of God. Yes, the true idea is infinitely beyond all this; for the love for the world gives in sacrifice the love for the only begotten Son.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 13:06:47 +0000
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