Tag: #John

Good morning, Family:

I pray this letter finds you well and dwelling in the perfect peace of the Lord.

One thing I have been praying for is that God would help me go deeper in my devotional time and for my time to be more consistent. The reason is that at some point I started squeezing God out of my day.

There was a time in my life that I would wake up singing and giving my highest praises to God. As a result, I stayed in the ever-flowing stream of God’s consciousness. Spiritual knowledge came to me quickly and effortlessly. I have read the Bible cover to cover more times than I can remember.

However, when life began getting more busy and the hours of my day were filled with so much activity, my time with God suffered. I was either too tired or too encumbered to add God back into my day. Lately, I have been so hungry to get back to that place of intimacy.

This morning, I woke up with God on my mind. The script that came to me was John 3:16, which is a very popular scripture. God pushed me to read the entire passage. I had forgotten that the entire passage had a deeper revelation.

Scriptures of Life and Light

John 3:16-21

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ “For God so loved the world
that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not perish
but may attain eternal life.
¹⁷ “For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world
but in order that the world might be saved through him.
¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned,
but whoever does not believe in him
already stands condemned,
because he has not believed in the name
of the only-begotten Son of God.
¹⁹ “And the judgment is this:
the light has come into the world,
but people preferred darkness to light
because their deeds were evil.
²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light
and avoids coming near the light
so that his misdeeds may not be exposed.
²¹ However, whoever lives by the truth
comes to the light
so that it may be clearly seen
that his deeds have been done
in God.”

Songs of Love and Hope

Family, John 3 has so much of a message. It is so much deeper than a single verse. John 3’s main message is about love in action and the characteristics of love that has been redeemed by the perfect and pure sacrifice of the cross.

I love you with the amazing and everlasting love of our Lord and Redeemer Jesus, The Christ.

Your sister, in Christ,

Rev. Marcia Davis