John 3:16-21
God Saves Us With His Son Dying on a Cross
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. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”
God is Forever and Infinite...And we are made in His Image...He LOVES us...And He devised a Way to take care of our sin debt, and the sins we do each day...He sent us a Savior...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...For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him....This is the righteousness and mercy that God has give us...Let us not forget God's Grace and be Joyful in Him and with Him...So let us make a Joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands...Serve the LORD with gladness and with gratitude: come before His presence with singing...Know that the LORD is God: it is He who has made us in His Image, and we did not create ourselves...We are his people, and the sheep of His pasture...Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise: be thankful unto Him, and bless His name...For the LORD is Good and Perfect; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures to all generations...He is the same yesterday, tomorrow, and forever...We will not rest until we rest with Him...He has made us to worship and praise Him...Let us give Him Glory for His Greatness and His Infiniteness...He is Eternal...Patience is learned when we wait upon the LORD and believe that He is helping us and doing good, even while we do not know His thoughts and Ways...And therefore, we need to Trust Him...God prefers our humility over our pridefulness...God is always working even in the worst of times...Our deepest happiness and satisfaction is only when we rest in Him...The Most LOVING Entity in the universe is deserving of our praise, our thanks, and in giving Him Glory...
John Stephen Piper is an American New Testament scholar, Reformed theologian, pastor, and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota...He has these thoughts on God...“The wisdom of God devised a way for the LOVE of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.”...“The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.”...“Our obedience is God’s pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.”...“The greatest threat to your ministry, dear brothers, is that you lose your Joy in God.”...“God made man small and the universe big to say something about Himself.”...“God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes Him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the Infinite Worth that He really is...This is what it means to be created in the Image of God.”...“The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.”...“Out of the freedom from worry that God’s generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.”...“Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.”...“God is at work in the worst of times...He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but Him.”...“The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God...Not from God, but in God.”...“The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the Glory of God...We were made for this.”...“God is the one being in the universe for whom self-exaltation is the most LOVING thing.”...