It seems as if lately I have been digging around plants and trees. Once such occasion happened to be on the Bridge of Flowers here in lovely Shelburne Falls. Needless to say after digging around it for nearly an hour I was able to use another tool to hit it in its roots and pry up on it. With a few blows and prying it was ready to come out and the clean root free dirt was ready to go back in place.
It seems every so often I find myself going back to my roots and seeing how God's Word is growing in my life. This classic childhood memory verse John 3:16 seems to resound with a little more meaning as time goes on. It's been repeated alone and I promise not to preach but the next verses are just as important. Love how The Message tells the story.
"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. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him.
John 3:16-18 (The Message)
Is this great news or what? I still get excited when reading this even now, all God ever asks for is belief and trust. Yes Jesus Loves Me. (Special note to my one reader I know about its page 193, memory is a wacky thing aye?) Reading this reminds me that God is in control, He is protecting me and He loves me.
Despite how I feel, the circumstances I fund myself, I know I am loved and that I have a wonderful friend.
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