This is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life.
(1 John 2:25, NASB)
I love this verse! I’m helping out with my church’s VBS this week, and one of the memory verses my kids learned was John 3:16. As I said yesterday, sometimes we who’ve known Jesus for a while can take our relationships with Him for granted. The same can be said of Bible verses we may have memorized years (or for some of us, decades) ago.
John 3:16, written by the same John whose book we’re focusing on now, reminds us of the core of the gospel. God loves us so much, He had a plan for our once-for-all salvation. God the Son, Jesus, came to earth to die for us, to pay the penalty for our sin. And that’s awesome … truly.
But that’s not the end of the story for us.
We’re promised another awesome thing: eternal life with our Lord and Savior. Eternity praising Him. Eternity worshipping Him.
That’s a promise Jesus Himself made. And that’s a promise you can trust.
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