John 3:16-17
God So LOVES the World
16 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. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 14:6-7
Jesus Says He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
We cannot stop the mind from telling stories...The world is awash in different stories...We tell ourselves stories frequently...For instance, let us say someone is supposed to meet you at one o’clock and they do not come until one thirty or even later till two o’clock...Your mind might think of what has gone wrong...Were they in an accident?...Did they forget the date or the time or both?...Other stories that we maybe just making up is when we go to the doctor and add what might or might not be wrong wrong with us...So the mind tells these stories to ourselves and they cannot be the truth...At least some of the stories we think as we sit and wait on our friend are not the truth...We live in a world of stories...So these stories we think maybe common and not so common, and some of our stories are even different and unusual...
And man thinks of his stories and then there are stories about God...Wouldn't God stories and stories of God be quite different that mankind stories?...Isn't there something quite unique about Him?...And to add further to this story, what is God were to have a Son?...And what if God sent Him to earth?...Wouldn't that story be the most different and unusual and unique story you would ever hear?...
As we listen to our own stories and the stories we hear from our friends, they too may at times be different and unusual...But let it be known there is One Truth...There is a Truth that we can rely on...It is the Absolute Truth...This story is the Greatest Story Ever Told...It is about One who calls Himself the Way, the Truth, and the Life...One who tells us if we know Him, then we know God, Himself...
This is the story about God sending His Son to dwell among us...An unusual true story about a Boy being born from a virgin...A young man who became a Carpenter, and then began a ministry for three years...A Rabbi and Teacher who chose twelve disciples to teach them about God and about Himself...Then after three years of teaching, He was arrested and placed on a cross, for what the Jewish religious leaders said was blasphemy...And He died on the cross for this “so called” blasphemy, yet all the while He died for the sins of mankind...A true story of a God who LOVES us...And if one believes this story and keeps God and His Son in their hearts, then they hold the key to eternal life...