To complete the verses on God's love and to celebrate Christmas, the verse for today is John 3:16. "This is how much god loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life (The Message)."
God came to us this day and continues to come to us every day because He loves us. God does not need to love us but the very essence of God is love. What God wants is for us to believe in that love. It is not a matter of judgment, rather it is an opportunity to have a whole and lasting life. Not just in some future event but rather a whole and lasting life today. I like the way Eugene Peterson puts it in The Message paraphrase. We do not need to be destroyed nor do we need to destroy others. Jesus came to us to show that there is another way of living our lives in the full life that God has bestowed on us.
Make this Christmas a pledge to live as believers and to love those around us this day and every day not just family, church, but also those we encounter in our day to day lives.
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