Ever think that "Christianese" words -- like righteousness, salvation, grace -- get overused, and lose their meaning? I do. I have often thought that we hear them so often, even say them so often, that we skim over the words, like a rock skipping on a lake, without ever plunging into the depths of what they really mean.Consider, for example, the most famous verse in the Bible: John 3:16. Almost everyone knows this verse (or at least of this verse); we learned it in Sunday school as a small child; we see it at football games, on billboards, on t-shirts. But when do ever consider what it means?
If you really look closely at the meaning packed into each word of this remarkable verse, you might get something more like this:
The God handed over The Son, The Only-Born, that all the ones trusting into him not might not be destroyed, but might have life that is not limited by time. And this is the reason: He utterly loved this world that turned its back on him.
Reading:
Psalm 107:1-43, especially verse 43:
Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the Lord.
see also Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:7-8
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