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back to the simple

 


Sometimes you have to move to the simple.  We make things complicated, difficult or even chaotic.  That is not because we want to, but because life can often just get hard.


We continue our Wednesday study in the Gospel of John, and last evening we studied only 4 verses.  Typically it is a lot more than that.


The basic or the simple might be the place we need to run to more often.  We need to shut down all the lights, the sounds and the extra stuff so we can focus what is at the foundation of it all.


Let me explain.


John 3:16-17  NLT  

“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.


Those verses, especially verse 16, is most likely the first first many people memorized or even ever heard from the Bible.  It packs the entirety of what God has done for us in sending salvation.


It speaks of His love.  It reminds us of His best gift.  It tells us of the future.


All because this is from what happened at the start of time with sin, that still controls humanity today.  But God has a plan, gave what is needed, and at the most simplified of it all is the truth of God sending Jesus because He loves people.


God loves you.  Take a few minutes to work over those two verses.  He didn’t come to judge us but to love us.  He didn’t prepare judgment, but He gave redemption.


Back to the simple is to turn and look at Jesus, to accept Jesus and to know we are loved by the one who can love us the most.

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