Dr. Walter L. Wilson
JOHN 3:16
can do that but the Lord. Even if you wanted to be a different kind of a person, you would have no power to do it. No religious leader can give you new life. Do you know any children in your neighborhood who are problems? Would you want them in your fam ily? Think how many times we must have brought grief to the Lord and yet He still wants us to be His chil dren. How marvelous this is! God reveals Himself to us in John 3:16. F irst we can know that there is a God. He is not dead by any means. He is especially interested in They cannot shell God's temple, Nor dynamite His throne, Or atom bomb His city Nor rob Him of His own. They cannot take Him captive Nor strike Him deaf or blind. Starve Him that He surrender Make Him to change His mind. They cannot cause Him panic, Nor cut off His supplies; They cannot take His kingdom Nor kill Him with their lies. Some may say that, "God is dead," And try to teach the same, In their modern colleges; Father— is still His name. Tho' we face persecution, And feel their goad and rod, Above all this confusion There always will be God. — 'William C. Dahlke you. He knew every human being on earth would need a Saviour and so He provided the Lord Jesus Christ. This didn’t come about by some scheme of man. God Himself did it. He is omniscient and omni potent and can do what He pleases. Think of Him giving life to a dead sinner, an enemy of His, making THERE A LW A Y S W IL L BE GOD
P erhaps the best known verse in the entire Word of God is John 3:16. Let us never think it too com mon for us to receive a rich bless ing from a study of it. After all, we go to an old cow to get fresh milk, to an old tree to get fresh apples, to an old spring to get clean water. There are things here to enrich our hearts as we seek the Holy Spirit’s leading. Think, first of all, how lavish God is in loving the entire world, includ ing you and me. We couldn’t do that. We have a hard time even car ing for our own relatives. I’m sure that there are a lot of people you’re glad you’re not married to. How liberal the Lord is in giving. Nothing could be greater for Him to give than His only begotten Son. Can you imagine how the Father felt on the throne in heaven when He saw men nailing His own Son to the cross? Here was the only Man in all the world who did only good. Think, too, how gracious God was in His invitation. The call is for "whosoever.” That omits nobody. It doesn’t make any difference what kind of life you may have lived in the past or whether you have money or social standing. The gracious pro vision is available to all. The Lord is powerful in preserva tion. Those who tru st the Saviour will never perish. Think of the mil lions we spend preserving roads in our country; of the fortune for flood canals to save the ground from being washed away. A tremendous cost is involved for man to prevent things from damage and destruction. (This is not to mention the millions we spend on our faces to keep us look ing young.) When the Lord saves us, it is for all*of time and eternity. He gives us everlasting life. No one
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