Yes, everyone knows this verse, but I think we know it so well that we ignore it. I am going to cut this verse up into sections and blog about that section and see what we can find out about it.
“For God…”
What is God? First off, He is not a what. He is a person. He has a personality just like us and has deep emotions. He is not a two dimensional character in a dry old book. He lives and feels. God experiences pain and sorrow when we betray Him. When we have victory over sin and evil, God rejoices and smiles with us. He desires to sweep us into His arms when we need to be comforted, and dance with us when we are joyful. He is a real, true life, person.
He thinks and reasons, but His mind works far above ours. His mind is so vast that He knows where every atom in the universe was, is and will be. That is difficult to comprehend. It is like a worm trying to understand how knowledgeable a human is. God is not human and we can not limit Him by our human standards.
Where did God come from? He came from someplace called Eternity. I do not understand what Eternity is, but there are some hints about it. Time apparently does not exist there, like it does here. There is no beginning or end of time there. God exists within Eternity, always has and always will. He is the one who created our universe with a beginning and possibly an end of Time. He exist outside of time and therefore is not governed by it.
He is all powerful. There is nothing at all that God can not do unless He limits Himself. God and God alone places boundaries upon Himself. Can God flood the world? He has the power to, but He can not do it, because He promised that He would not destroy the world with water again.
So who is this God in John 3:16? He is the greatest person in the universe. He can do anything He desires. Nothing can stop Him. Nothing can defeat Him. He is the most wondrous and dangerous being to ever live.
Other post on John 3:16:
For God
so loved
the world
that he gave his only begotten son
that whosoever believeth in him should not parish, but have everlasting life.
Photo Credit: Creation of Adam by Sebastian Bergmann
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