My favorite Bible verse. 😎❤️🙏
This is my favourite verse.
John 17:23
23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.
God loves us as much as he loves Jesus.
I read that verse many times but always overlooked it.
Not sure if it was conscious or subconscious.
Aftertall how could the creator love me as much as he loves Jesus.
Dirty rotten sinner who had no way of reconciliation to the Father.
Well this dirty rotten sinner thought he could.
Work for it, be perfect that will save me.
Alas I couldn't achieve the perfection required from God or Jesus.
Therefore I am doomed.
Then one day when laid up with a bad back God asked me to spend time with him.
I said "no" three times.
You see I couldn't come before God because of guilt, fear of rejection.
God saying "Sorry Bill but now you are out, off to hell with you"
So the 4th time I opened the Bible and said "Ok let's talk"
God said go to
Romans 5:1-5
1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
So I read the above and was confused.
I had no peace with God.
My anxiety was so severe.
If my anxiety was so severe how could I have faith?
So I looked up the Greek for peace.
It has nothing to do with anxiety.
Basically it means that there is no longer an emnity between God and me.
The war has ended, he has initiated this peace.
Ok I thought.
This peace is as a result of faith.
So I looked up the meaning of faith.
When I saw what it meant I thought "I have this faith"
I believe in Jesus and want to be like him.
Then I looked up this word love.
AGAPE.
That then led me to my favourite verse above.
But I then read
Genesis 3:15
15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between your seed and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
From the beginning of time the Father had a plan in place.
This was as a result of his Agape love
This was fulfilled
John 19:30
30 So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Matthew 27:51
51 Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,