Tuesday 12/20/2022

Tuesday 12/20/2022

John 3:16-17

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

This is perhaps the most well-known text in the entire Bible. We do not often think of it, however, as a passage that talked about the meaning of Advent and Christmas. Yet that’s precisely what it did: it said that in Jesus, God expressed in a personal, redeeming way the depth of God’s love for the whole world. God’s love did not mean wishing the world well from afar. Instead, God’s love led him to become one of us in the person of Jesus.