John 3:17: "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world may be saved through Him"
The verse that immediately precedes this verse is one of the most well-known and memorized verses in all of Scripture. But "For God so loved the world..." is not the end, so to speak, of Jesus' point. He means to tell Nicodemus that God is not merely the just Judge but that He is also, simultaneously the Savior of the world!
There is and innate tendency, if even slight or unconscious, to think of God as the grumpy old man who polices the universe. And though it may seem needless to say, this view of God is a total caricature, mistaking who He is for what the last fifty years in America have painted Him to be. In the end, God is loving and the great sacrifice of His Son still stands as the utmost act of love in the history of the universe. We should never, not ever forget this...
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