This morning I am reminded of the 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein classic musical “The Sound of Music.” As Maria teaches the children the basics of music, she sings:
Let’s start at the very beginning, A very good place to start.
When you read you begin with A-B-C
When you sing you begin with do-re-mi
It occurs to me, for the Christian, we begin with “God Loves Me.” So, let’s start at the very beginning, A very good place to start:
John 3:16-18 (NET) For this is the way 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
What does this teach me about God?
· God’s love is without measure.
· God’s love offered his own Son’s life in order to save mine.
· God’s love wasn’t just offered to me, but for anyone who would believe.
· God’s one and only Son is Jesus Christ.
· Jesus is the one who is speaking these words recorded in John 3:16-18.
What does this teach me about my response to what I know about God?
· I need salvation because it is something I do not have; without it I will perish.
· I receive salvation by believing that Jesus Christ voluntarily gave his life to save mine.
· If I believe this; that Jesus Christ died for me, then the gift of salvation is mine and I am not condemned; I will stand among the redeemed.
· If I do not believe this; that Christ died for me, then the gift of salvation is not mine and I am condemned; I will perish because I have refused to accept God’s gift.
Gracious Heavenly Father,
I am so humbly grateful for Your love. Thank you for giving the life of your only Son, Jesus Christ, that I might believe and be saved. Yes, I believe that Jesus Christ is your only begotten Son; and yes, I believe that Jesus Christ died to pay the price for my redemption.
Heavenly Father, I ask that you might renew the hearts and minds of every reader; that they might have within them new confidence and hope about the reason for their salvation.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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