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Only Jesus can give you true love

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son,

that whoever believes in him should not perish but

have eternal life.”

Martin Luther called John 3:16 a Bible in itself, the miniature gospel. In his dying moments, he repeated the words of this verse three times. It is perhaps the most famous verse in the Bible. So much truth is packed into one sentence, but we will not begin to understand it if we see the word “God” as simply the subject of a sentence.

We find in the magazine New Horizons that B.B. Warfield once said: When we pronounce the word we must see to it that our minds are flooded with some wondering sense of God’s infinitude, of his majesty, of his ineffable exaltation, of his holiness, of his righteousness, of his flaming purity and stainless perfection. This is the Lord God Almighty whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, to whom the earth is less than the small dust on the balance. He has no need of aught nor can his unsullied blessedness be in any way affected…by any act of the creature of his hands. What we call infinite space is but a speck on the horizon of his contemplation: What we call infinite time is in his sight but as yesterday when it is past…It is this God, a God of whom to say that he is the Lord of all the earth is to say so little that it is to say nothing at all, of whom our text speaks….Now the text [John 3:16] tells us of this God—of this God, remember—that he loves.

This God, vast, immense, and amazing beyond all comprehension, loves you. And because he loves you, he gave to you his own Son. He gave the supreme gift, the outrageous gift, the stunning gift. 

Jesus, the eternal Son of the Father, became a mere human so he could die on a cross. For you. And all you have do is to believe in him, put your trust in him, take him as your Savior.

See the love of this great God. See the love of this great God in his son Jesus. See it. Receive it. Thrill to it. Exult in it.