John 3:16

So this is a verse that is very common to man. Chances are whether you believe in God or not you have heard this verse at one point in your life. Here is what it says.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in

Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16

 

 

You read it. Your brain comprehends it. Then you close your bible, or stop listing to whoever is telling you the verse. Have you ever really sat down and meditated on this verse? Like really dug deep to reveal the message God is giving you.

 

 

Until today I hadn't ever really meditated and studied the true meaning of this verse. It is simple but it goes so much deeper that what I have ever imagined.

 

 

• First you should know that The book of John leads up to this one verse. This one powerful, life changing, verse.

 

 

Okay! now lets break down this verse!

 

For God so loved the World

 

• God's love is not static or self- centered. It doesn't stand still or focus on only itself. It reaches out and draws us closer.
• In this simple beginning sentence God sets up the pattern of true love. The basis for all love relationships.

 

That He gave His only Son

 

• When you love someone so much you are willing to give up everything for that individual. This is how much God loved us. That He would send His only son to die for the sins that we commit.
• Can you imagine loving someone so much that you would give your son away to die a painful and brutal death? Its hard to imagine but that is exactly what God did for us!

 

That whoever believes in Him,

 

• To believe means more than just believing that God is who He says he is.
• To believe goes even deeper it means having total and complete faith in God. Giving all that you are to him and trusting that He will take care of you.
• It is to put Christ in charge of our present plans and eternal destiny.
• Believing is both trusting his words are reliable, and relying on him for the power to change.

 

Shall not perish, but have ETERNAL life. 

 

• Some people are repulsed by the idea of eternal life because their lives are miserable, but eternal life is not an extension of a person's miserable, mortal life.
• Eternal life is God's life embodied in Christ given to all believers now as a guarantee that they will live forever.
• In eternal life there is not death, sickness, enemy, evil, or sin.
• When we don't know Christ, we make choices as though this life is all we have. In reality, this life is just the introduction to eternity.
• Receive this new life by faith and begin to evaluate all that happens from an eternal perspective.

 

 

 

That is the breakdown of the simple verse John 3:16. This verse holds so much meaning and power and is one that needs to be studied and meditated on.

 

 

God bless <3

 

Love,

Heaven April