God so
loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone who
believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not
send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be
saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever
does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the
name of the only-begotten Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light
came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their
works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does
not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever
lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as
done in God.
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Reflection:
What
would happen to us if we will not embrace the teachings of God? We will have
miserable lives in this world. Almost all of humanity knows that there is God
yet we don’t embrace the teachings of God. We prefer to embrace the teachings
of this world rather than God.
We
prefer to enjoy life without God rather than life with God. Why? Is this
because God creates rules and limits on how we live our lives? Many of us don’t
want our freedom to be curtailed. But since freedom is not absolute there are
limits to freedom.
God
always wants us not to commit sin. This is for the reason that the moment we
commit sin we envelope ourselves in darkness and darkness is the absence of the
light of God. Just imagine a life in darkness, it’s a life without hope
and this is precisely what the devil gives to us: Life without hope sugar coated
with worldly pleasures.
But no
sinner is beyond reach of the love of God for God always offer to us His hand
of forgiveness and love. This forgiveness and love is for our benefit but do we
take advantage of this great forgiveness and love of God?
God
loves us dearly that He gave us Jesus to save us from all of our sinfulness yet
we don’t embrace God we put aside Jesus in favor of this world. Let us not put
Jesus aside and tell Him that we will first enjoy life in this world before we
go to Him. For it may be too late already.
Let’s
embrace God now let us open our life to Him now and let us start to walk away
from our sinfulness now. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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