Bible Reading: John 3:1-16
Key Verse: Verse 16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Key Words: For God so loved the world
At least on
forty-four different occasions, Jesus is referred to as the Son of God in the
book of John. Without a doubt, the most
well-known of the forty-four verses is John 3:16 which tells us about the love
of God.
God’s love
never fails. I Corinthians 13:8, “Charity never faileth.”
More than
fifty years ago at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, a young
sociology professor assigned his class to a city slum to interview two hundred
boys. “On the basis of your findings,
predict their future,” he said.
Shocked at
what they found in the slums, the students estimated that ninety percent of the
boys interviewed would someday serve time in prison.
Twenty-five
years passed and the same professor asked another class to try to locate the
survivors of the two hundred boys and compare what had happened. Of the one hundred eighty of the original
boys located, only four had ever been to jail.
Why had the
predictions not turned out? A common
denominator was sought in their lives, some value or influence that may have
made the difference. Through more
interviews, it was found that over one hundred of the men remembered having the
same high school teacher, Miss O’Rourke, who had been a tremendous influence on
them at the time. After a long search,
Shelia O’Rourke was found in a nursing home in Memphis, Tennessee, now seventy
years old. When asked for her
explanation, she was puzzled. “All I can
say,” she concluded, “is that I loved them all.”
Just think of
the impact Jesus has had on us, because God loved us all.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Thank God for His
wonderful love.
✞Share His love with
others.
✞Love Him back by your
Christian service.
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