IMMEASURABLE LOVE

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that

whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”—John

3:16

I was very greatly surprised the other day, in looking over the list of texts

from which I have preached, to find that I have no record of ever having spoken

from this verse. This is all the more singular, because I can truly say that it might

be put in the forefront of all my volumes of discourses as the sole topic of my

life’s ministry. It has been my one and only business to set forth the love of God

to men in Christ Jesus. I heard lately of an aged minister of whom it was said,

“Whatever his text, he never failed to set forth God as love, and Christ as the

atonement for sin.” I wish that much the same may be said of me. My heart’s

desire has been to sound forth as with a trumpet the good news that “God so

loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in

him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”