Growing up, I always used to look for the sign behind the goal post showing John 3:16 …. For God So Loved The World …

 

It disturbs me that I can now not remember the last time that I saw that sign … The reality is: His banner should be hung in every stadium.  In fact, a banner proclaiming Him should be everywhere we look.  And think about it?  Why wouldn’t we?  For God SO Loved The World That He Gave His One AND ONLY Son …. Those are words that EVERYONE needs to proclaim.  

 

Only if you have a child can you truly understand the power of that statement …

 

The power of a parent’s love is so strong ….

 

Last week, my sweet little daughter Carissa had a seizure in our house … it terrified everyone in our family.  I literally felt as though my heart had been ripped out of my chest … that little peanut has NO IDEA how much my wife and I love her … and to see her in a state of danger is utterly terrifying.  If you can find the time—we would cherish your prayers…but that is not the point of this blog.

 

The point of this blog is to remind us–all of us–of a parent’s love.

 

I can think of a few low points in my life….and almost all of them involve one of my kids being in pain.  It is devastating and cuts to the core when your child suffers…..

 

A person’s worst fear is to have a child in pain … or to lose a child.

 

My heart never ceases to pray or feel for those who have …

 

But even that is not the point of this blog.

 

The point of THIS blog is to remind us that God voluntarily offered His child—and we can not understate it.

 

He SENT His Son to pay for our sins.

He WATCHED His Son get disregarded and overlooked.

He SAT AND OBSERVED as His Son tried to turn the hearts of men to Him….sometimes successfully and sometimes not.

He STOOD HELPLESSLY as His Son was falsely accused, mocked, spit on, and executed between two thieves.

He WATCHED from on high as His Son was given the same treatment as that of a thief… or murderer… or hardened criminal.

 

And He volunteered it….for you.

 

Do not underplay this point.  At the most costly price He could pay…He bought YOU.

 

He put it all out there…for YOU.

 

He paid the greatest price…for YOU.

 

Turn your heart to heaven and repent!

You belong to Him and He has paid a great price to have YOU!

 

No matter what you have endured or done.  

No matter what you have done right—or wrong.  

No matter where you were born or how much money you have. No matter what your resume says–or doesn’t say.

And no matter how far you have wandered off the trail….

 

He has ransomed His Son to pay for your release from bondage.

 

Zephaniah 3:16 says that He takes great delight in you and rejoices over you with singing.

 

And John 3:16 has the most compelling word yet.

John 3:16  “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.

 

Go back to your first love.  It will make everything else line up the way that it should.

 

For He is the first and the last…..and everything in between.

 

In The Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

 

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Coach J