Happy Easter!
How interesting that on a year when March is the third month of a year ending in 16 (making the date with just month and year 3:16), Easter should fall in March.
Anyway, this is what I can’t stop thinking about. John 3:16 -For God so loved the world that He gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life. Every Christian knows this verse from a very young age, but it’s interesting to take a closer look. In our world, full of prejudice and hatred, it’s easy for Christians to project their opinions onto God (i.e. God hates homosexuals) whether or not there is scriptural evidence backing these claims. But what I see here in this verse is a promise that completely lacks the prejudices of humanity. For God so loved the WORLD – the whole world, not just part of it. So that EVERYONE who believes – not just the righteous, not just the worthy, not just the straights or the whites or the people who tithe regularly – EVERYONE may have eternal life. What an incredible promise, sealed in the blood of God’s own Son. The only requirement for life is to believe. Amazing. What wondrous love is this, to save all of us, just because we were willing to believe!
My book recommendations this month are the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini – a wonderful series with Tolkien’s imagery, Lewis’s symbolism, and all the excitement of series such as Divergent or The Hunger Games – the first novel of which was published when the author was only nineteen, and Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell, a delightfully steampunk retelling of Cinderella, with an ending you night not expect.
As for music, I have a mild obsession with the band Switchfoot, a slightly old Christian rock band.
God bless!
~Witch of Endor
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