Article July 12, 1975 ISSUE

"God so loved the world"

BEVERLY BEMIS HAWKS

"What is the most important thing in the world to you?" asked my friend. I replied, "My love for God." Her expression told me I should reconsider. I thought of John's words, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us." I John 4:10; The most important thing in the world for all of us, then, is God's love for man.

"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; Does this mean that God, not knowing evil, could love a material world? What He knows and loves is His own true expression, the spiritual idea, appearing even now in a measure in the human consciousness of the people in the world. It was the understanding of God's expression of His own goodness that brought forth a personal Saviour.

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