Ok we have been busy so I have been a terrible blogger. And to be honest the past few weeks have been pretty mundane, so not alot to blog about. But in recent days the verse John 3:16 has really been playing in my head. I have been thinking about it, analyzing it and looking at it in a new and fresh way.
This started when one of our new believers was telling us how it was her favorite verse and how she had memorized it. When I asked her why it was her favorite she said because "it is so beautiful, it is the whole story of God." That really started me thinking, the whole story of God.... I have known this verse it seems my whole life. I have always counted it as a favorite because I think somewhere it is a christian rule, #95 you must think John 3:16 is great. But I really never thought about why? Why was this the verse that almost everyone can quote (the answer is not because you see it all the football games, although this certainly makes more people aware right.) It was just the verse you were taught in Sunday school to explain what happens when you believe in Jesus.
So I am thinking about this verse and then this weekend in our Serbian Fellowship, we were discussing John 3 and Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus. The concept of being born again and what a difficult time Nicodemus was having understanding that men must be born again. We were looking at the demand that Jesus states - all men must be born again. And then some one asked why, and thats when John 3:16 opened up to me. It is the whole story of God, because it answers the question why. Yes why to men being born again but bigger then that. Why did God do what he did? Why did Jesus come leave heaven and dwell among us? Why did Jesus die a painful death on the Cross? Why, Why, Why? Because the whole story of God, is his love for us is so great, and his desire to pursue us into relationship with him is so great that he gave the best he had to us - His Son Jeus.
This started when one of our new believers was telling us how it was her favorite verse and how she had memorized it. When I asked her why it was her favorite she said because "it is so beautiful, it is the whole story of God." That really started me thinking, the whole story of God.... I have known this verse it seems my whole life. I have always counted it as a favorite because I think somewhere it is a christian rule, #95 you must think John 3:16 is great. But I really never thought about why? Why was this the verse that almost everyone can quote (the answer is not because you see it all the football games, although this certainly makes more people aware right.) It was just the verse you were taught in Sunday school to explain what happens when you believe in Jesus.
So I am thinking about this verse and then this weekend in our Serbian Fellowship, we were discussing John 3 and Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus. The concept of being born again and what a difficult time Nicodemus was having understanding that men must be born again. We were looking at the demand that Jesus states - all men must be born again. And then some one asked why, and thats when John 3:16 opened up to me. It is the whole story of God, because it answers the question why. Yes why to men being born again but bigger then that. Why did God do what he did? Why did Jesus come leave heaven and dwell among us? Why did Jesus die a painful death on the Cross? Why, Why, Why? Because the whole story of God, is his love for us is so great, and his desire to pursue us into relationship with him is so great that he gave the best he had to us - His Son Jeus.
